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Frederick Goodall (1822-1904)

Professions: Orientmaler; Genre Painter; Naval painter; Landscape painter; Painter; Illustrator

  • FREDERICK GOODALL, R.A. 1822-1904

  • FREDERICK GOODALL, R.A.

  • FREDERICK GOODALL R.A. BRITISH, 1822-1904

  • Frederick Goodall (British, 1822-1904)

Frederick Goodall Biography

(b London, 17 Sept 1822; d London, 28 July 1904). Painter, son of (1) Edward Goodall. He was taught by his father and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838. His earliest subjects were rural genre scenes and landscapes, many derived from sketching trips made between 1838 and 1857 in Normandy, Brittany, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Venice. In the 1850s he also painted subjects from British history. More significant for his subsequent career was his visit to Egypt from September 1858 to April 1859. In Cairo he lived in a house in the Coptic quarter with Carl Haag. Together the two artists went on expeditions to Giza to draw the Nile, the Sphinx and Pyramids, and to Suez and across the Red Sea to the Wells of Moses at ’Uyûn Mûsa. Goodall also made rapid sketches in the crowded streets of Cairo. ‘My sole object in paying my first visit to Egypt’, he wrote, ‘was to paint Scriptural subjects’ (Reminiscences , p. 97). The first of these, Early Morning in the Wilderness of Shur (London, Guildhall A.G.), was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860 and won him critical and popular acclaim. In 1864 he was elected RA. Much of the rest of Goodall’s long career was devoted to painting similar scenes of Egyptian life with biblical associations, for which he made reference to his sketches and to Egyptian artefacts and clothing. Their success prompted a second visit to Egypt in 1870–71. Towards the end of the century, however, Goodall’s popularity and his prosperity greatly declined, and in 1902 he was declared bankrupt.

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