Caroline Burland Gotch (née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artiste and allowance 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. She studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in 1878 and then at the Slade School of Art in London in the past enrolling at the Academie Julian in Paris during 1880. 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. Despite protracted periods of ill-health following child-birth, Gotch and her husband travelled extensively including an 1883 vacation to Australia. They lived in London amongst 1884 and 1887 in the past settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a intimates home, Wheal Betsy. In Newlyn the couple were founding members of the St Ives Art Club and lithe in the artists’ groups after that being received in the area.
Caroline Gotch exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy amid 1887 and 1895 and like the Royal Society of British Artists throughout the 1880s. Gotch showed at the Paris Salon in 1897 and 1898 where she was awarded second and third place medals. 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 following the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts along with 1886 and 1894. In both 1895 and 1896 she had pieces shown at the Glass Palace in Munich. Gotch after that showed at announcement galleries, including the Grosvenor Gallery, the Goupil Gallery and the Fine Art Society. Despite her exhibition record, very few examples of Gotch’s put it on survive but photographs put-on sophisticated compositions, often featuring women and kids in domestic settings.
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