Joseph Goodyear (1799–1839) was an English engraver.

Biography

Joseph Goodyear was born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

in 1799 and was first apprenticed to an engraver on plate, named Tye. He also studied drawing under G. V. Burkes at Birmingham. He came to

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, and was employed at first by Joshua Allen, brother of James Baylis Allen, on engraving devices for shop bills and the like. In 1822 Goodyear placed himself under

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, the well-known engraver, for three years. Subsequently, he was extensively employed on the minute illustrations and vignettes which adorned the elegant 'Annuals' so much in vogue at that date. In 1830 he exhibited two engravings at the Suffolk Street Exhibition. He did not execute any large plate until he was employed by William and Edward Finden to engrave Eastlake's picture of 'The Greek Fugitives' for their ''Gallery of British Art''. This he completed, and the engraving was much admired, but the mental strain and prolonged exertion which was required for so carefully finished an engraving broke down his health. He endured a lingering illness for a year, and died at his house in

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on 1 October 1839, in his forty-first year, and was buried on the western side of

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. His grave (no.38), which no longer has a visible headstone or marker, is close to that of James Baylis Allen.

External links

* Goodyear engraved , a painting by

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was It ...

(Baron Gérard) for The Amulet annual, 1832.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodyear, Joseph 1799 births 1839 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English people English engravers Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands