Caroline Gotch

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. 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. 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. They lived in London between 1884 and 1887 before settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a family home, Wheal Betsy. 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.

Caroline Gotch exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1895 and with 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. Gotch also showed at commercial galleries, including the Grosvenor Gallery, the Goupil Gallery and the Fine Art Society. 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.