The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It holds an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and artists from Britain and abroad whose work has been selected from an annual open submission.
Portrait of members of the New English Art Club, by William Orpen. From left to right: Alphonse Legros, Auguste Rodin, Philip Wilson Steer, Henry Tonks, Frederick Brown, William Rothenstein, Augustus John, Charles Conder, Dugald Sutherland MacColl
Thomas Cooper Gotch or T. C. Gotch (1854–1931) was an English painter and book illustrator loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement; he was the brother of John Alfred Gotch, the architect.
Thomas Cooper Gotch, self-portrait
The Child Enthroned, 1894
My Crown and Sceptre, 1892 (the sitter appears to be Phyllis, his daughter). This was his first work in his new style: two years later, he would rework it into the more powerful The Child Enthroned, his master work
The Orchard, 1887