Frederick Goodall

Frederick Goodall ( [ ɡʊdɒ ː ɫ ], spr guddahl, . Born March 17, 1822 in London, † July 29, 1904 ) was an English painter.

Life

Goodall began his studies under the guidance of his father Edward Goodall (1795-1870), a well-known engraver, and was given in 1836 by the Society of Arts a medal and soon by the same a price for his first oil painting it: The body of a miner, by torchlight found.

The Royal Academy participated in the exhibition of 1839, his painting French soldiers in a tavern on drinking.

His travels in France, Wales, Belgium and Ireland provided him with the material for many popular images, such as:

  • The Gypsy Camp
  • The dream of the soldier
  • Hunt the Slipper
  • The Postbüreau, Paris 1848
  • The Village Festival (1847, in the National Gallery )
  • The ball in favor of the widow
  • A happy day Charles. I. (1855 ).

A 1860 made ​​in Italy and the Orient Travel widened the circle view of the artist. There now arose the pictures:

  • Lecture from " Tasso " in Chioggia
  • Early morning in the desert
  • Return of a pilgrim from Mecca
  • Inundation
  • Mater dolorosa
  • The Finding of Moses
  • Rebekah at the well.

" From his latest images" ( Meyers) are the most prominent:

  • Sheep washing at the Pyramids of Giza,
  • Sociable in Egypt ( 1877)
  • The daughters of Laban
  • Palm Sunday (1878 )
  • Interior of a Mosque in Cairo ( 1880).
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