Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints
Photographs

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and printsback to top

before 1895
?Painting signed with initials ‘T.C.G’ (Thomas Cooper Gotch) and inscr. with sitter’s name in cartouche upper left, head-and-shoulders turned to left, with wire spectacles, horizontal waxed moustache, wearing academic gown over dark suit; untraced. Known from mounted photogravure inscr. ‘F.Gotch, Waynflete Professor of Physiology / Fellow, 13 March 1895’ in Magdalen College L., Oxford, MC:01/P1/1 p.56.
T.C. and Francis Gotch were cousins (Bristol Mercury, 14 Mar. 1898, p.3). It appears the photograph of the portrait was supplied to Francis Gotch’s college following his election as fellow when he re-joined Oxford University.

1895
Bronze relief plaque, 1170mm high, by Charles John Allen, signed ‘Chas. J. Allen sc. 1895’ and inscr. ‘Haec fiat lux fovent studia otia / Franc. Gotch hoc amoris sincerissimi testimonium amiciet sodales D.D.D.AD MDCCCVC’, head-and-shoulders, half-profile to right; U. of Liverpool, Victoria GM, FA.1558. Exh. U. of Liverpool AG 2003 (no cat. no.); repr. University of Liverpool Recorder, Feb. 1991, p.19 item 2; ref. and repr. Clough 2003, pp.38–9, where described as ‘a delightful exercise in the Early Renaissance style, with the sensuous surfaces which appealed so much to the New Sculptors [and] a freely romantic image reminiscent of contemporary relief portraits of artists by French as well as English sculptors’.

c.1913
Bronze plaque by Alfred Drury; see NPG 1777a.

Photographsback to top

c.1892
Carte-de-visite by Maull & Fox, head-and-shoulders vignette, turned to left, thin face, large moustache with waxed ends, wearing dark suit over wing collar and pale tie; Royal Society, London, IM/Maull/001710.

1910s
Photograph by Elliott & Fry, head-and-shoulders, profile to left, wearing dark suit and tie, handkerchief in top pocket; repr. Lancet, July 1913, vol.II, p.349 (see Wellcome Images M0013251); (vignette) ILN, 26 Jul. 1913, p.128.

Dr Jan Marsh