My crown and sceptre

A portrait of the artist’s daughter, Phyllis, painted during a visit to Florence in 1891–92. Though a member of the Newlyn school, Gotch’s art changed radically at this time through his discovery of Italian early Renaissance painters. He abandoned the anecdotal realist subject matter of the Newlyn artists and started to explore a vein of symbolism focussing on images of women and children in timeless settings.