Edmund Gouldsmith (10 July 1852 – 10 August 1932) was an English painter, noted for landscapes and marine studies, who spent three years in

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, South Australia and three years in

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History

Gouldsmith was born in Chatham,

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according to one reference

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according to a contemporary report,

, and studied at the Bristol Government School of Art and the

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s at South Kensington. He worked five years with the city architect's office at Bristol, but left when he felt confident of making a living through his art. He arrived in Adelaide in 1883, and established a studio in rooms above E. S. Wigg & Son's stationery premises with the desirable feature of north-facing windows, but austere and with no pleasing outlook. He exhibited with the

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(misreported as the "Royal South Australian Society of Fine Arts"), of which no trace has been found. In 1886 he left for New Zealand, where he served as part-time art master at

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and exhibited with the

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1887–1888 before returning to Britain, where he exhibited at the

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from 1891 to 1927. The

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commissioned several paintings from him, one of the River Onkaparinga at

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and one of ships and hulks at the

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, and currently holds four watercolors, including a view of Adelaide from Montefiore Hill. The

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once held his ''Seacoast''.

Other works

*A 43 cent postage stamp issued by the

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in 1990 used as its subject the

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, from a watercolor painted by Gouldsmith.

References

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