Thomas Gooch (1750-1802) was an English artist who also specialised in painting animals, particularly dog and horse portraiture. No portraits of the artist survive.
Gooch was born in London circa 1750, where he lived for most of his life; he died at Lyndhurst, Hampshire in 1802. Details on his family life are scant.
More famous for his work depicting animals, Gooch also painted images of those who owned the horses and dogs he more readily depicted. He famously carried out a study of the life of a racehorse as a set of six images, depicting the animal's misuse after a life of racing as a thoroughbred. The Life and Death of a Racehorse, completed in 1792, was a popular work and reproduced as aquatint prints and often accompanied by a thought-provoking text on animal cruelty.
Gooch was an artist who was popular with the landed gentry and prolific, exhibiting many times (76 paintings submitted) at the Royal Academy.
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Gooch, Thomas (1750-1802) - Lord Abergavenny's Dark Bay Carriage Horse 1785
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Gooch, Thomas (1750-1802) - Hon Marcia & George Pitt at Stratfield Saye House 1782
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