Thomas C. Gotch

  • Artist (Painter)
Gotch trained at the Antwerp Academy, but left after one semester despite doing extremely well. He had an established reputation in Britain as a painter and also fostered some Australian connections.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Thomas C. Gotch
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • c.1877- c.1878
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1877- 1878 Antwerp Academy, Antwerp, Belgium
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

painter, established his reputation in Britain yet had Australian connections, notably as a leader of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists. Like E.A. Hornel and Bernard Hall , Gotch trained at the Antwerp Academy. He did brilliantly in the initial antiek class in winter 1877-78 (60/60), then left.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Edward Atkinson Hornel
1864
Artist (Painter)
associate of
L. Bernard Hall
1859
Artist (Painter)
Citations:
  • Sheey, Jeanne, (1997), 'The flight from South Kensington: British Artists at the Antwerp Academy 1877-1885', (Place: Art History, 20/1, March, p.130)