Albert Goodwin (1845–1932) was a British landscapist specialising in

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. His work shows the influences of

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and the

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. __NOTOC__ Goodwin was born in

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, the son of a builder and one of 9 children. After leaving school he became an apprentice

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. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

artists Arthur Hughes and

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

- the latter predicting that he would become "one of the greatest landscape painters of the age". At the age of 15 his first painting was exhibited at the

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. He became an associate member of the

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(RWS) in 1876. He was championed by famed art critic

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who took him on a tour of Europe, where he made many sketches from nature which were later turned into watercolours. During his lifetime he traveled extensively throughout Britain and Europe, and visited many other countries including a trip to Canada in 1890 accompanied by his nephew and fellow artist Sidney Goodwin. Goodwin was a prolific artist, producing over 800 works and continuing to paint well into his eighties. His wide variety of landscape subjects reflected his love of travel and show the influence of

, with whom he felt a strong affinity. In later works he developed experimental techniques such as using ink over water color to achieve atmospheric lighting effects. His works are also an important record of social history.

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