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).