Caroline Gotch

née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School

Academie Julian in Paris during 1880.^[2] 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.^[2] Despite protracted periods of ill-health following child-birth, Gotch and her husband travelled extensively including an 1883 trip to Australia.^[3] They lived in London between 1884 and 1887 before settling in Newlyn where they eventually built a family home, Wheal Betsy.^[4] 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.^[5][6]

Goupil Gallery and the Fine Art Society.^[5] 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.^[1]