Thomas Cooper Gotch ( English; Thomas Cooper Gotch ; December 10, 1854 , Kettering - May 1, 1931 , Newlin , Cornwall ) - an English artist - post-impressionist , symbolist and Pre-Raphaelite , a famous representative of the Newlin School of Painting.
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Life and work
Thomas Gotch was born into a wealthy family. After leaving school, he worked for some time in his father’s shoe store. In 1876 he entered the Herterly Art School . In 1877, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp , in 1878 - at the London School of Fine Arts Slade , where he met the artist Henry Scott Tuck , who became Gotcha's lifelong friend, as well as his future wife Caroline Burland Yates . In 1881, Thomas and Caroline were married at St. Peter's Church in the town of Newlyn, in Cornwall, which had been visited before, and then came to Paris and entered the Julian Academy there . In 1882 , a daughter was born at the Gotcha in Paris; shortly after, they leave for Australia and live in Melbourne for some time.
After returning to England, T. Gotch opposed the conservative traditions of the Royal Academy of Arts , and in 1885 , together with John S. Sargent , Stanhope Forbes and Frank Bramley , participated in the creation of the New English Art Club . In 1887, the Gotch family moved to Newlin, where he meets Henry Tuke again, and where Walter Langley and Samuel D. Birch organize a colony of artists ( Newlyn School ). Gotch here helps in the creation of the Newlin Art Gallery, where members of the colony can exhibit their work. During this period of creativity, Gotch paints numerous landscapes, mainly in the realistic and post-impressionist styles.
In 1891 - 1892, the artist and his wife made a long trip to Florence . This stay in the homeland of Renaissance art strongly influenced Gotch’s creative views and directed them towards painting of the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as symbolism and romanticism. At first, this radical turn came across a lack of understanding in the artistic environment. A turning point in the mood of criticism came in 1894 , when one of the artist’s works was especially noted in The Times , and the new paintings by T.K. Gotcha in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists were universally recognized. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, Gotch became one of the most famous artists in England, his paintings are acquired by many museums and galleries. The artist paints portraits (bringing him the greatest income), landscapes, illustrates books. In 1911, a retrospective exhibition of the works of T.K. Gotcha was held in Newcastle . In the 1920s and 1930s, in his work, he increasingly returned to realistic painting.
Gallery
Dance lesson
Royal Child (1894)
Message
Queen Clotilde
Death is the bride
Little pages
Portrait of a young woman
Orchard
Cleaning fish
Awakening
The clouds
Hallelujah (1896)
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- ↑ Thomas Cooper Gotch - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3