Walter Goodall (6 November 1830 – 14 May 1889) was an English

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

painter.

Life

He was youngest son of Edward Goodall, the engraver, and brother of the artists

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 ...

and

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 ...

. He studied in the school of design at

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and 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 ...

. About fourteen years before his death Goodall had a paralytic seizure, from which he never quite recovered, and during the last few years of his life was unable to practise his art. He died on 14 May 1889, in his fifty-ninth year, leaving a widow and three children.

Works

In 1852 Goodall exhibited three drawings at the

. In 1853 he became an associate of the (Old) Society of Painters in Water-colours, and continued to be a frequent exhibitor in Pall Mall; in 1862 he became a full member of that society. He was a constant exhibitor at the

Royal Manchester Institution The Royal Manchester Institution (RMI) was an England, English learned society founded on 1 October 1823 at a public meeting held in the Exchange Room by Manchester merchants, local artists and others keen to dispel the image of Manchester as a ...

and all the principal water-colour exhibitions. Some of his best work was shown at the exhibition of watercolours at Manchester in 1861. His ''Lottery Ticket'' was exhibited at the

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair to be held in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the ...

in 1876. Goodall typically painted small subject-pictures, such as ''The Daydream'', ''The Cradle Song'', ''Waiting for the Ferry-boat'', and ''The Tired Lace-maker''. A number of these were lithographed in a series entitled ''Walter Goodall's Rustic Sketches''. Goodall also made drawings from pictures in the Vernon Gallery for engravings published in ''

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 ...

''.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodall, Walter 1830 births 1889 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists