{{Short description|English artist (1854-1945)}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox artist | name = Caroline Gotch | image = | caption = | birth_name = Caroline Burland Yates | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1854|5|9}} | birth_place = Liverpool, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1945|12|14|1854|5|9}} | death_place = | field = Painting | training = {{ubl|Heatherley School of Fine Art|Slade School of Fine Art|Academie Julian}} | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = Thomas Cooper Gotch | website = }} '''Caroline Burland Gotch''' (née '''Yates''', 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School.
==Biography== Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local property owner.<ref name="CWallace">{{cite book|author=Catherine Wallace|publisher=truran|year=2002|title=Under the Open Sky - The Paintings of the Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880-1940 in the Public Collections of Cornwall and Plymouth|isbn=978-185022-168-5}}</ref> 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.<ref name=CAIcgotch>{{cite web |url=https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/caroline-burland-gotch |title=Caroline Burland Gotch|access-date=15 January 2018|work=Cornwall Artists Index}}</ref> 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.<ref name=CAIcgotch/> Despite protracted periods of ill-health following child-birth, Gotch and her husband travelled extensively including an 1883 trip to Australia.<ref name=Diarygotch>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/items/tga-9019-2-1-4/diary-of-caroline-gotch|title=Diary of Caroline Gotch 10 November 1883-4|access-date=16 January 2018|work=Tate}}</ref> They lived in London between 1884 and 1887 before settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a family home, Wheal Betsy.<ref name=TCgotch>{{cite web |url=http://www.falmouthartgallery.com/Collection/Artist/Gotch%2C_Thomas_Cooper_RBA_RI_RP_%281854-1931%29|title=Gotch, Thomas Cooper RBA RI RP (1854-1931)|access-date=16 January 2018|work=Falmouth Art Gallery}}</ref> 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.<ref name="SGray"/><ref name="MWhybrow">{{cite book|author=Marion Whybrow|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=St Ives 1883-1993 Portrait of an Art Colony |isbn=1-85149-170-8}}</ref>
Caroline Gotch exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1895 and with the Royal Society of British Artists throughout the 1880s.<ref name="SGray">{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|year=2009|title=The Dictionary of British Women Artists|isbn=97807-18830847}}</ref> Gotch showed at the Paris Salon in 1897 and 1898 where she was awarded second and third place medals.<ref name="CWallace"/> She showed works at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1879, at the New English Art Club in 1888, at the Society of Women Artists in 1879 and 1893 and also with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts between 1886 and 1894.<ref name="SGray"/> In both 1895 and 1896, she had pieces shown at the Glass Palace in Munich.<ref name="Benezit6">{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 6 Gemignani - Herring|isbn=2-7000-3076-1}}</ref> Gotch also showed at commercial galleries, including the Grosvenor Gallery, the Goupil Gallery and the Fine Art Society.<ref name="SGray"/> Despite her exhibition record, very few examples of Gotch's work survive but photographs show sophisticated compositions, often featuring women and children in domestic settings.<ref name="CWallace"/>
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