Talk:Thomas Cooper Gotch

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Was he at the Newlyn School? -FZ 01:25, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Better question - was he of the Newlyn School.

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I've been working on List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings as none of the other Pre-Raphaelite artists currently have lists of their painted work on their article pages. Should Thomas Gotch's list of works remain on this page or should I transfer it to my new master list page and leave a link here? Madmedea 18:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Return from the Pageant
As a matter of interest, a painting by Gotch was shown on this Sunday's (UK) Antiques Roadshow (2 March 2008). I think it was Return from the Pageant. It was owned by an elderly lady who was surprised when the expert told here it was worth £30,000! So it may come on the market soon... A delightful painting by the way, with a procession of children in semi-darkness lit by paper lanterns, much in the style of that famous Sargent painting. It's a shame more of Gotch's work is not on display. Tate Britain sometimes shows Alleluia, and the Walker in Liverpool has A pageant of children, but the gallery at Kettering keeps most of it stuff in store. I'm sure a collection of reproductions of Gotch would make a very attractive book.92.9.115.111 (talk) 20:24, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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His mother Mary Ann (born 1817 in London Ivy Lane) married Thomas Gotch in St Saviour's Church Southwark in 1847. He had an elder brother, John Alfred Gotch, a successful architect, architecture scholar and antiquarian writer.

He was friends with Albert Chevallier Tayler in Newlyn.

My Crown and Sceptor led to his most well-known work The Child Enthroned made in 1894. The latter, on original exhibition, was hailed by The Times newspaper as the star of that year's Royal Academy show. Until that time, his new style of work had drawn much critical scorn.

He worked first at painting local scenes in the then-fashionable realist manner. But even these often had a romantic edge, such as The Wizard or an obvious love of surface colour.

He painted religious Christian scenes, history painting, portraits, and a few landscapes. His best-known paintings, which form the bulk of his work, usually portray girl-children in ornate classical or medievalist dress. The appearance of the girls in his paintings is often noted as being very modern. Gotch was a close and lifelong friend of Henry Scott Tuke, whose work featured a parallel focus on the boy-child. Gotch's lifelong adoration of the beautiful girl-child was shared by other Victorian giants such as John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll.

His emotionally-charged work was immensely popular and critically acclaimed for most of his life, although interest in neo-romanticism waned after the First World War and he turned to watercolours of flowers. He also illustrated books, such as Round About Wiltshire, The Land of Pardons (an early study of Breton folklore & Celtic Christianity), and contributed illustrations to school readers such as Highroads of Literature.

Access to work: Tate Britain; Falmouth Art Gallery, Penlee House, Penzance; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Alfred East Gallery, Kettering; Walker, Liverpool and Rochdale.

Much of his work has survived, and much is still in England; but has never been collected in a print edition. Manuscripts relating his life and work are in the care of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Alfred East Gallery in Kettering has a substantial collection of his work, but only a small part of it is on permanent display. The gallery sells a small 32-page booklet on Gotch.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 20:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)