Edward Goodall (1795 – 11 April 1870) was a British engraver. He is now best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner.

Life

He was born at

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

on 17 September 1795, and was entirely self-taught. From the age of sixteen he practised both engraving and painting. One of his pictures exhibited at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

in 1822 or 1823 attracted the attention of Turner, and he became a landscape engraver. Goodall died at Hampstead Road, London, on 11 April 1870.

Works

Goodall's major engravings were from the works of Turner. He made the

vignette Vignette may refer to: * Vignette (entertainment), a sketch in a sketch comedy * Vignette (graphic design), decorative designs in books (originally in the form of leaves and vines) to separate sections or chapters * Vignette (literature), short, i ...

s for

Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His ...

's ''Italy'' and ''Poems'', and the illustrations to

Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Thomas Campbell (poet) (1777–1844), Scottish poet * Thomas Campbell (sculptor) (1790–1858), Scottish sculptor * Thomas Campbell (visual artist) (born 1969), California-based visual artist ...

's ''Poems''. He engraved also: * ''A Seaport at Sunset'' and ''The Marriage Festival of Isaac and Rebecca'' after

Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in It ...

; * a ''Landscape, with Cattle and Figures'', after

Aelbert Cuyp Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp () (20 October 1620 – 15 November 1691) was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651 ...

; and * ''The Market Cart'' after

Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of ...

, these three for the series of ''Engravings from the Pictures in the National Gallery'', published by the Associated Engravers; *''The Ferry Boat'', after

Frederick Richard Lee Frederick Richard Lee (10 June 1798 in Barnstaple, Devon – 5 June 1879 in Vleesch Bank, South Africa) was an English artist. Life 1862 painting of the Rock of Gibraltar with Windmill Hill Barracks in view Lee was the son of Thomas Lee o ...

, for

William Finden William Finden (178720 September 1852) was an English engraver. Life He served his apprenticeship to James Mitan, but appears to have owed far more to the influence of James Heath, whose works he privately and earnestly studied. His first empl ...

's ''Royal Gallery of British Art''; and * ''The Castle of Ischia'', after

Clarkson Stanfield Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. ...

, for the

Art Union of London The Art Union of London, established in 1837, was an organisation which distributed works of art amongst its subscribers by lottery. Art unions Art unions were organisations created to function as patrons of art. Members would pay a small annual ...

. While landscape engraving was his speciality, he also executed figure subjects, some after the paintings of his son

Frederick Goodall Frederick Goodall (17 September 1822 – 29 July 1904) was an English artist. Life Frederick Goodall was born in London in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Wel ...

. Among those were ''The Angel's Whisper'' and ''The Soldier's Dream'', ''The Piper'' (engraved for the Art Union of London), ''Cranmer at the Traitor's Gate'', and ''The Happy Days of Charles the First'', all after Frederick Goodall; and ''The Chalk Waggoner'' after

Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include '' Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fi ...

. He engraved some plates for ''The Amulet'', and for ''

The Art Journal ''The Art Journal'' was the most important British 19th-century magazine on art. It was founded in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, print publishers, 6 Pall Mall, with the title ''Art Union Monthly Journal'' (or ''The Art Union''), the first issue of 7 ...

''.''Raising the Maypole'', ''A Summer Holiday'', ''The Swing'', ''Felice Ballarin reciting Tasso'', ''Hunt the Slipper'', ''Arrest of a Peasant Royalist, Brittany, 1793'', ''The Post-boy'', and ''The School of Sultan Hassan'', all after Frederick Goodall; ''The Bridge of Toledo'' after

David Roberts David or Dave Roberts may refer to: Arts and literature * David Roberts (painter) (1796–1864), Scottish painter * David Roberts (art collector), Scottish contemporary art collector * David Roberts (novelist), English editor and mystery writer ...

; ''Amalfi, Gulf of Salerno'', after

George Edwards Hering George Edwards Hering (1805 – 18 December 1879) was an English landscape painter. Life Born in London, he was a younger son of a German father who was a bookbinder. At an early age he lost his father. He was a clerk in a bank, but took up art ...

; ''Manchester from Kersal Moor'', after

William Wyld William Wyld (1806 in London – 25 December 1889 in Paris) was an English painter. Life Born to a family that had produced rich merchants for several generations, he gained a pronounced taste for drawing very young. On the death of a young ...

; ''Evening in Italy'', after

Thomas Miles Richardson Thomas Miles Richardson (1784–1848) was an English landscape-painter. Life He was born at Newcastle on 15 May 1784. His father, George Richardson (died 1806) was the master of St. Andrew's grammar school, Newcastle; Moses Aaron Richardson ...

; ''The Monastery'', after Oscar Achenbach; and ''Dido building Carthage'', ''Caligula's Palace and Bridge, Bay of Baiæ'', and ''Ulysses deriding Polyphemus'', after Turner.

Family

Goodall left three sons,

Edward Angelo Goodall Edward Angelo Goodall (8 June 1819 – 16 April 1908) was an English landscape and orientalist painter, a member of the Goodall family of artists. Early life Goodall was the son of Edward Goodall, the engraver of J.M.W. Turner's works, an ...

, and

Walter Goodall Walter Goodall (1706? – 1766) was a Scottish historical writer, born in Banffshire, and educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen. Later he became assistant librarian to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. In 1754 Goodall publis ...

, all members of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours. His daughter, Eliza Goodall, married name Wild, exhibited at the Royal Academy and

British Institution The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it w ...

between 1846 and 1855.

External Link

* Engraving of , a painting by William Linton for The Literary Souvenir annual, 1828 and accompanied by the poem ''Ancient Song of Victory'' by

Felicia Hemans Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet (who identified as Welsh by adoption). Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck" and "The stately homes of England", have acquired classic statu ...

. * Engravings for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books, with poetical illustrations by

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough ...

: *:1832, of , by

with ''The Pirate's Song off Tiger Island.'' *:1832, of , by

. *:1835, of , by George Petrie. *:1836, of , by

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. H ...

. *:1839, of by J. M. W. Turner for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839 with a poetical illustration by

. * Engraving of , a painting by

, accompanied by a poem by

in The Amulet annual for 1832. * Engraving of , drawn by

William Westall William Westall (12 October 1781 – 22 January 1850) was a British landscape artist best known as one of the first artists to work in Australia. Early life Westall was born in Hertford and grew up in London, mostly Sydenham and Hampstead. ...

for the Forget Me Not annual, 1835, with a poetical illustration by

. * Engraving of , a painting by Henry Howard, for The Cabinet of Modern Art, 1836, with a poetical illustration by

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodall, Edward 1795 births 1870 deaths English engravers