208 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



It will be noted that this publication shows the 

 artist in the role of engraver of his own works. 



Though Gooch did much and excellent work, 

 few of his paintings seem to have been engraved, 

 and the fact that his brush was so frequently em- 

 ployed upon portraits of animals more interesting 

 to their owners than to the general public, may in 

 a measure account for this. One of his works, 

 " Foxhounds," was engraved by Godby and Merke 

 and published by Orme in 1808. 



We find no record of the date or circumstances 

 of Thomas Gooch's death. His last contributions 

 to the Royal Academy appeared in the exhibition 

 1802, after which date we lose sight of him, the 

 engraving of a painting at a later date being of 

 course no proof that he was at the time alive. 



WORKS OF THOMAS GOOCH. 



EXHIBITED AT THE ROY.\L ACADEMY (76 in number). 



YEAR 



■781— (3) A GIG-MARE, the property of a ^enA^m^n— PORTRAIT OF A GENTLE- 

 MA I'f WITH HIS HOR.'^E AND DOGS— A HORSE, for Colonel Gallatine. 



1782— (6) PORTRAIT OF A HUNTER— PORTRAIT OF AN OLD HORSE- 

 HORSES AND DOGS belonging to the Hon. Mr. Vm— PORTRAIT OF A 

 HORSE WITH DOGS— PORTRAIT OF A HORSE AND DOG— POR- 

 TRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN ON A MANAGED HORSE. 



ijSj— (4) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN ON HORSEBACK— PORTRAITS 

 OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN AND HIS SISTER ON HORSEBACK- 

 PORTRAITS OF Tiro HORSES— "The Life of a Raceh.rse," in a series of 

 six different stages, viz. :— ist, THE FOAL IITTH THE MARE. 2nd, 

 THE COLT BREAKING. 3rd, THE Tl.VE OF RUNNING. 4th, AS A 

 HUNTER, sth, AS A POST HORSE. 6th, HIS DEATH. 



ijii—P0R7-RAIT OF A HORSE. 



