Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Frederick Goodall (1822-1904), Painter
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Painter; born 17 September 1822, in Camden, London. Studied painting under his father, line engraver Edward Goodall; exh. RA 1839–1902; elected ARA 1852, RA 1863; visited the Crimea 1854, lived in Cairo with the artist Carl Haag 1858–9; first major Orientalist success, Early Morning in the Wilderness of Shur (Guildhall AG, City of London) exh. RA 1860; second tour of Egypt 1870; declared bankrupt 1902; died 28 July 1904, at West Hampstead, London.
His travels in Egypt determined Goodall’s themes, and many of his Nile subjects were bought by art dealer Ernest Gambart. By the 1890s, however, Goodall had outlived his popularity.
His last few years were spent collecting material for a valedictory memoir, Reminiscences (publ. 1902). Of portraiture he wrote:
Portraiture is a most fascinating pursuit. Every figure-painter practises it at least occasionally. It is a department in which British artists have always been strong, and never more forceful than to-day when they derive no assistance whatever from costume. This throws them back upon drawing, character, and colour. In this line there are no greater names than those of Mr. J.S. Sargent, R.A., and Sir George Reid.[1]
Carol Blackett-Ord
His travels in Egypt determined Goodall’s themes, and many of his Nile subjects were bought by art dealer Ernest Gambart. By the 1890s, however, Goodall had outlived his popularity.
His last few years were spent collecting material for a valedictory memoir, Reminiscences (publ. 1902). Of portraiture he wrote:
Portraiture is a most fascinating pursuit. Every figure-painter practises it at least occasionally. It is a department in which British artists have always been strong, and never more forceful than to-day when they derive no assistance whatever from costume. This throws them back upon drawing, character, and colour. In this line there are no greater names than those of Mr. J.S. Sargent, R.A., and Sir George Reid.[1]
Carol Blackett-Ord
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Furniss 1887b
Furniss, H., Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy: ‘An Artistic Joke’, London, 1887.
Gibson 2004
Gibson, F.W., ‘Goodall, Frederick (1822–1904)’, rev. B. Llewellyn, ODNB, Oxford, 2004.
Goodall 1902
[Goodall, F.], The Reminiscences of Frederick Goodall RA, London and Newcastle-on-Tyne [sic], 1902.
Gould 2004
Gould, V.F., G.F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian, London, 2004.
Herkomer 1910–11
Herkomer, H. von, The Herkomers, 2 vols, London, 1910–11.
Houfe 1996
Houfe, S., The Dictionary of 19th-Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1996 (rev. ed. of Houfe 1978).
Maas 1975
Maas, J., Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World, London, 1975.
Maas 1984
Maas, J., The Victorian Art World in Photographs, London, 1984.
McMaster 2008
McMaster, J., ‘That Mighty Art of Black-and-White: Linley Sambourne, Punch and the Royal Academy’, British Art Journal, Autumn 2008, pp.62–76.
McMaster 2009
McMaster, J., That Mighty Art of Black-and-White: Linley Sambourne, Punch and the Royal Academy, Edmonton, Canada, 2009.
Ormond 2010
Ormond, L., Linley Sambourne: Illustrator and Punch Cartoonist, London, 2010.
Slarke 1981
Slarke, N.G., Frederick Goodall, RA, Oundle, 1981.
[Wood] 1984
[Wood, C., intro.,] A Fraternity of Artists: A Set of Sixty-two Portraits of Late Victorian Artists, by Walker Hodgson, exh. leaflet, Christopher Wood Gallery, London, 1984.