Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller.

Thomas Cooper Gotch
Death the Bride, Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Graphite on Paper

$11,744.86
£8,572
€10,487.31
CA$16,490.79
A$17,022.36
CHF 9,594.63
MX$220,229.94
NOK 109,464.48
SEK 115,480.21
DKK 78,385.96

About the Item

Thomas Cooper Gotch RBA RI 1854 - 1931 Death the Bride Graphite on paper Image size: 44 x 34 inches Pre Raphaelite Style frame The title of the painting comes from Shakespeare. It is from Measure for Measure, Act III, scene I, line 86, where Claudio says: 'If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride and hug it in my arms.' Gotch uses poppies here to show death personified as a beautiful, morbid bride ready to embrace the viewer for eternity. With her head wreathed in lilies, she stands in a field of Opium Poppies further playing with the illusion of dangerous allure. This version of death is comforting, natural, and dangerous. Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931) was an original member of the Newlyn colony of artists, the group that made such an impact on the late Victorian art world in England. He was a close and life-long friend of Henry Scott Tuke and Stanhope Forbes. From the mid 1880s, he was a leading figure amongst the young artists who attempted to resist the hegemony of London’s Royal Academy of Art, being a founder member and secretary of the New English Art Club. After a trip to Florence in 1891, where he saw the paintings of Quattrocento artists such as Fra Angelico and Benozzo Gozzoli, Gotch's style changed quite dramatically. He abandoned the realism and monochromatic blues and greys of the Newlyn School for highly decorative allegorical subjects, vibrant colours and an attention to detail akin to that of the Pre-Raphaelites. This work is a preliminary sketch for what many regarded to be Gotch's master work, 'Death the Bride'.
  • Creator:
    Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854 - 1931)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    1 of 1Price: $9,839
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU5245987302

More From This Seller

View All
Graphite Study of a Head, Monogrammed Victorian Sketch, Gilt Fame

Graphite Study of a Head, Monogrammed Victorian Sketch, Gilt Fame

By Henry Perronet Briggs

Located in London, GB

Graphite on paper, monogrammed lower left Image size: 6 x 6 1/2 inches (15.25 x 16.5 cm) Contemporary style handmade gilt frame Henry Perronet Briggs Henry Perronet Briggs RA wa...

Category

Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Portrait Studies

Portrait Studies

By Edwin Longsden Long

Located in London, GB

Edwin Long 1829 - 1891 Portrait Studies Graphite on paper Image size: 4 x 8 inches (10 x 20.5 cm) Framed Edwin Longsden Long RA (1829-1891, British) wa...

Category

1850s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch

A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch

By Jane Ross

Located in London, GB

Graphite on paper Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm) Framed This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...

Category

Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

You May Also Like

Veiled Woman - Original Pencil Drawing - Late 19th Century

Veiled Woman - Original Pencil Drawing - Late 19th Century

By Augustin-Alexandre Dumont

Located in Roma, IT

Veiled Woman is an original drawing realized during the XIX century by Alexandre Dumont. The artwork represents a beautiful veiled woman. Good conditions except for the yellowing of the paper on the margin and some foxings. Augustin-Alexandre Dumont also known as Auguste or Augustin Dumont, (Paris, 1801 - 1884) was a French sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Jacques-Edme Dumont.

Category

Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Pensive Young Woman Drawing in Graphite and Chalk, Circa 1895-1905

Pensive Young Woman Drawing in Graphite and Chalk, Circa 1895-1905

By Maurice Chabas

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Maurice Chabas (Nantes 1862 – Versailles 1947) Pensive Young Woman Graphite with white-chalk highlights on blue-grey paper 46 × 32 cm Unsigned Provenance Bruno Delarue Gallery, É...

Category

1890s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk, Pencil

Study of Ruth

Study of Ruth

By Lilian Westcott Hale

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Study of Ruth, c. 1925 Charcoal and sepia ink on paper 22 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches (56.5 x 70.5 cm) Signed upper center: Lillian Westcott Hale Lilian Westcott Hale...

Category

1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Ink

Beauty - Original lithograph - 1897

Beauty - Original lithograph - 1897

By Edward Burne-Jones

Located in Paris, IDF

Edward Burne-Jones Beauty, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph created for t...

Category

1890s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Young Lady -  Original Drawing in Pencil by Eugène Giraud - Late 19th Century

Young Lady - Original Drawing in Pencil by Eugène Giraud - Late 19th Century

By Eugène Giraud

Located in Roma, IT

Young Lady is an Original Drawing in pencil realized by Eugène Giraud in the Late 19th Century. Applied on a Cardboard, included a blue Passepartout: 41 x 33 cm Good conditions. T...

Category

Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil