Caroline Gotch

Caroline Burland Gotch (néeYates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School.

Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local property owner.^[1] She studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in 1878 and then at the Slade School of Art in London before enrolling at the Academie Julian in Paris during 1880.^[2] While at the Slade she met Thomas Cooper Gotch and the couple married in August 1881 at St Peter's Church in Newlyn. They returned to France, where their daughter, Phyllis Maureen, was born in September 1882.^[2] Despite protracted periods of ill-health following child-birth, Gotch and her husband travelled extensively including an 1883 trip to Australia.^[3] They lived in London between 1884 and 1887 before settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a family home, Wheal Betsy.^[4] In Newlyn the couple were founding members of the St Ives Art Club and active in the artists' groups then being established in the area.^[5][6]

Caroline Gotch expuso regularmente en la Royal Academy entre 1887 y 1895 y con la Royal Society of British Artists durante la década de 1880. ^{[ 5 ]} Gotch expuso en el Salón de París en 1897 y 1898, donde recibió medallas de segundo y tercer lugar. ^{[ 1 ]} Expuso obras en la Royal Hibernian Academy en 1879, en el New English Art Club en 1888, en la Society of Women Artists en 1879 y 1893 y también con el Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts entre 1886 y 1894. ^{[ 5 ]} Tanto en 1895 como en 1896, tuvo piezas expuestas en el Palacio de Cristal de Múnich. ^{[ 7 ]} Gotch también expuso en galerías comerciales, incluyendo la Grosvenor Gallery , la Goupil Gallery y la Fine Art Society . ^{[ 5 ]} A pesar de su historial de exposiciones, sobreviven muy pocos ejemplos de la obra de Gotch, pero las fotografías muestran composiciones sofisticadas, que a menudo presentan a mujeres y niños en entornos domésticos. ^{[ 1 ]}