My Crown and Sceptre, 1892. Scanned from the catalogue of an 1893 exhibition, it is public-domain. The original painting is in color. The sitter appears to be Phyllis, his daughter. This was his first work in his new style. Two years after My Crown and Sceptre he would rework it into the similar but far more powerful The Child Enthroned, his master work.

Thomas Cooper Gotch (b. 1854 in Kettering - d. 1931 in London). English Pre-Raphaelite painter and book illustrator. 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Map sources for Kettering at grid reference SP8778 Kettering is a town in Northamptonshire, England, which has a population of 48,025 (2001 census). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ...

Early life

Gotch came from a middle-class business family who were also distinguished scholars and artists. He was sent to a local art school, went to Antwerp (Ecole des Beaux Arts) and Paris (J.P. Laurens), then studied at The Slade in London (1878-1880). In 1881 at age 26, after a long engagement, he married fellow art student Caroline Burland Yates (1854-1945). Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution (whether secondary, post-secondary/undergraduate, or graduate) with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, sculpture, and graphic design. ... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old part of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and is home to a number of triptychs by the Belgian painter, Rubens. ... École des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After varied and energetic world travel, he became more and more involved with the fractious politics around the resistance to the domination of the Royal Academy of Art, and was a founder member of the New English Art Club. This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

Gotch and his wife settled at the Newlyn artists' colony in Cornwall, from around 1887, although they had previously visited as early as 1880. There he founded the Newlyn Industrial Classes, where the local youth could learn the arts & crafts. He also helped to set up the Newlyn Art Gallery, and served on its committee all his life. He founded (1887) and later served as President (1913-1928) of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists. External link Newlyn (DMOZ.org) Newlyn Photographs Categories: Stub | Towns in Cornwall ... An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England, the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His beloved only daughter, Phyllis Marian Gotch (born France 1882), made the young Gotch family a mainstay of the Newlyn social-scene. She and her circle of friends (used by Gotch as models) inspired the stories of H.D. Lowry. Phyllis later became a writer and singer, and married around 1913. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

He had an elder brother, John Alfred Gotch, a successful architect, architecture scholar and antiquarian writer.

Thomas Cooper Gotch appears to have been buried at Newlyn.

His painting

In Newlyn he worked first at painting local scenes in the then-fashionable realist manner. But even these often had a romantic edge, such as The Wizard or an obvious love of surface colour. Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ...

In 1891 a visit to Florence, Italy, opened his eyes to the work of the romantic European symbolists. He took the brave step of changing his style, to make romantic decorative paintings, when the prevailing fashion was against him. His first work in this new style was My Crown and Sceptre (1892), which was the progenitor to his most well-known work The Child Enthroned (1894). The latter, on original exhibition, was hailed by The Times newspaper as the star of that year's Royal Academy show. Until that time, his new style of work had drawn much critical scorn. 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Location within Italy Giglio di Firenze - symbol of the city Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy at 43°46′ N 11°15′ E. The city on the Arno River has a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess... (Disambiguation: you may be looking for Neoromanticism (music) or New Romantic (British pop music)) The term neo-romanticism is synonymous with post-Romanticism or late Romanticism. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

He painted religious Christian scenes, history painting, portraits, and a few landscapes. His best-known paintings, which form the bulk of his work, usually portray girl-children in ornate classical or medievalist dress. The appearance of the girls in his paintings is often noted as being very modern. Gotch was a close and lifelong friend of Henry Scott Tuke, whose work featured a parallel focus on the boy-child. Gotch's life-long adoration of the beautiful girl-child was shared by other Victorian giants such as John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. Categories: Art stubs | Painting ... Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858–13 March 1929), British painter, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys, which have earned him the status of a pioneer of gay male culture. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845?, scanned from print made circa 1895. ... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ...

His emotionally-charged work was immensely popular and critically acclaimed for most of his life, although interest in neo-romanticism waned after the First World War and he turned to watercolours of flowers. He also illustrated books, such as Round About Wiltshire, The Land of Pardons (an early study of Breton folklore & Celtic Christianity), and contributed illustrations to school readers such as Highroads of Literature. (Disambiguation: you may be looking for Neoromanticism (music) or New Romantic (British pop music)) The term neo-romanticism is synonymous with post-Romanticism or late Romanticism. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Breton can refer to: The Breton language A person from Brittany Author André Breton This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For the Nelly Furtado album, see Folklore (album). ... The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ... Christianity is the worlds largest religion. ...

A retrospective show was held in Newcastle in 1910, and a memorial exhibition in Kettering in 1931. This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Today

Much of his work has survived, and much is still in England; but has never been collected in a print edition. Manuscripts relating his life & work are in the care of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Alfred East Gallery in Kettering has a substantial collection of his work, but only a small part of it is on permanent display. The gallery sells a small 32-page booklet on Gotch. The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) is on Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Map sources for Kettering at grid reference SP8778 Kettering is a town in Northamptonshire, England, which has a population of 48,025 (2001 census). ...

There was a show in 2001, T.C. Gotch: The Last of the Pre-Raphaelites at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A street in Truro, with Truro Cathedral in the background. ...

Incomplete list of paintings

• The Wizard (notable early work)
• The Orchard (1887) (notable early work)
• My Crown and Sceptre (1892)
• The Child Enthroned (1894)
• Death the Bride (1894/5)
• Portrait of Phyllis Gotch in Blue (198?)
• The Pageant of Children (1895)
• Alleluia (1896)
• Dawn of Womanhood (1900)
• The Message (1903)
• The Return From The Pageant (1907)
• High Velt, South Africa (1910)
• The Mother Enthroned (1912-1919)
• Self Portrait (1912)
• The Flag (191?)
• The Nymph (1920)
• The Vow (1920s?)
• Crossing the Bar (1923)
• It is an Ancient Mariner (1925)
• The Madonna of the Mount (1926)
• John Alfred Gotch (1926)
• The Nymph and The Exile (1929-30)
• The Birthday (1930)

• The Clarinet Player
• Young Girl Reading a Manuscript
• Dalaphne
• A Jest
• A Golden Dream
• The Awakening
• Mental Arithmetic
• The Story of the Money Pig
• Fireside Story
• Heir to All the Ages
• The Dancing Lesson
• The Exile
• Study of a Young Woman
• Portrait of a girl with eyes closed (charcoal)

Further reading

• Baldry, A.L. "The Work of T.C. Gotch", The Studio, Vol.13, March 1898, pages 73-82.
• Lomax, Pamela. The Golden Dream: A Biography of Thomas Cooper Gotch (Sansom & Company, 2004) (120 pages, paperback).