Caroline Burland GOTCH

1854—1945

Born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 9 May, 1854, Caroline Yates studied at Heatherly's School of Art (1878), the Slade School of Art and at the Academie Julian, Paris (1880).

Caroline and her sister Esther (Ess) visited Newlyn in the summer of 1879, where Tom GOTCH visited her subsequently. She had met her future husband Thomas Cooper GOTCH, whilst studying at the Slade School, and also their good friend Henry Scott TUKE. Returning from Paris in 1881, she married Thomas on 31 August at St Peter's Church, Newlyn, and then returned with him to Paris to continue her studies.

They had one daughter, Phyllis Maureen GOTCH, who was born in France in Sept 1882, and they continued to spend time abroad until Caroline's ill health brought them back to England in 1883. By 1887 they were living in Newlyn. Caroline continued to paint, but sparingly, and exhibited and sold work in the early years of NAG.

Caroline died on 14 December, 1945, age 90 (GRO) in Newlyn, surviving her husband by fourteen years. The full story of the couple's life of art and travel is told in The Golden Dream (2004) by Pamela Lomax.

details

Caroline Burland GOTCH

aka:

nee YATES

gender:

female

media:

Painter of landscapes and portraits

references:

Bednar Every Corner was a Picture;

Cross (1994) The Shining Sands (ills);

Dowdeswell Exhibition catalogue (repr Hardie 2009);

Flanagan, B (2010) Artists along the Ouse 1880-1930 p44;

Fox & Greenacre (1979) Artists of the Newlyn School;

Graves RA Dictionary 1769-1904;

Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn/Diary;

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall p197 and col pl: Newlyn Old Pier & Gwavas Lake;

Johnson & Greutzner;

Lomax (2002) A Long Engagement, Cameos from the Life & Times of Thomas Cooper Gotch;

Lomax (2004) The Golden Dream;

NAG sales records (repr Hardie 2009);

Newton et al (2005) Painting at the Edge;

Tovey (2009) St Ives/ Social History;

Wallace et al (1996) Women Artists in Cornwall 1880-1940;

Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1883-1900 painters list, p 211);

memberships:

exhibitions:

DOW; NOT; WH; RA; FIN; GG and GOU; RBSA (1888 under Yates);

Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition 1893;

NAG Opening 1895;

Penlee House, Penzance Exhibition of Women Artists 2002;

works and access:

Likenesses: Portrait by William WAINWRIGHT in Hardie 2009 p40;

Works include: A Cosy Couple; Newlyn Old Pier & Gwavas Lake (c1879); In the midst of life we are in death; Motherhood; The Bard Tale tuum Carmen novis Virgil; Two Italians; A Peace Offering; Morning in the Village (1881); Portrait of Miss Hegan Kennard; A Quiet Occupation (1895)

Access to work: The Trehayes Collection, Cornwall;

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