ALBERT GOODWIN RWS (1845-1932)


SUNSET THROUGH WOODLAND	NEWCASTLE	THE DOCKS

STUDIES OF FARM ANIMALS	THE VILLAGE STREET	CHAMBERY, HOTEL WINDOW, MARKET DAY

ANNECY	CHAMBERY	MONTE ROSA VINEYARDS

CARRARA MOUNTAINS, SPEZZIA: MARBLE SHINING LIKE SNOW	WATER WHEEL	ITALIAN FORTIFIED TOWNS

NARNI; ROME	THE ROMAN FORUM	A DISTANT VIEW OF ROME

THE TIBER WITH ST PETER'S, ROME	SIENA	PADUA

ORVIETO	NEAR VERONA I	NEAR VERONA II

LAGO DI GARDA	VENETIAN MARKET	QUAYSIDE, VENICE

RYE AND WINCHELSEA	CLEANING NETS, ILFRACOMBE	CERTOSA

DORDRECHT	VIA CRUCIS, FLORENCE	DORDRECHT

DARTMOOR	WINCHESTER COLLEGE	BRISTOL

THE WALLS OF LUCERNE	DOVER	BERGEN, NORWAY

TAJ MAHAL. AGRA	OXFORD FROM TRINITY GARDENS	LABOURER WITH A SPADE

MAN PULLING A ROPE	STUDY OF THREE CHILDREN	ST MICHAELS MOUNT

KNEELING AND SEATED FIGURE	SMALL GIRL IN A PETTICOAT	LOOKING OUT

LABOURERS AND A GENTLEMAN IN A TOP HAT	WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT THE GARDEN GATE?	THOUGHTFUL FIGURES

STUDIES OF LITTLE GIRLS	LINCOLN	CATS AND THE MILKMAN

CAIRO	MARKET DAY FIGURES	SOLDIERS ON PARADE

SKETCHES OF A LURCHER	ALERT DOG	CONVERSATIONAL GROUPS

VENICE FROM THE GUIDECCA	CAVALRY MEN	CAIRO

DORKING FAIR	VENICE - THE TENDERING OF THE STORK FISH	ST VINCENT PORTSMOUTH & GUN BOAT

WESTMINSTER	THE EVENING SERVICE, SALISBURY	BENARES

THE PYRAMIDS FROM OLD CAIRO	DAWN. THE PLAINS OF INDIA	ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES

GREENWICH	TORRE ANUNZIATA	HMS VICTORY AT GOSPORT

BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE	CANTERBURY	VENICE BEFORE THE FALL OF THE CAMPANILE

BRISTOL. ST MARY REDCLIFFE	BOSHAM	CANTERBURY. AUTUMN SUNSET

WELLS FROM ROOF OF PARISH CHURCH	CHICHESTER	ADDISON'S WALK, MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD

LINCOLN	VESUVIUS	WESTMINSTER

THE BANYAN TREES AND THE SENTINEL	AMALFI	NAPLES

NAPLES	BERWICK ON TWEED	ELY

HASTINGS	VENICE	DOVER, THE HARBOUR WORKS

VERONA	THE SHIPBREAKERS YARD	THE BOATBUILDERS YARD

THE RIGHI	BERNE	FREYBOURG

OXFORD - ORIEL COLLEGE	FRIBOURG (SUISSE)	CATSFIELD, SUSSEX

OLD INTERLAKEN	ST MICHAELS MOUNT	DOVER

THE GARDENS, PALLANZA, LAGO MAGGIORE	RYE PORT	RYE

RYE PORT & RYE	LAUSANNE, SUMMER MOONLIGHT	LAUSANNE

CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS	THE WRECK	HASTINGS, WINTER SUNSET

BLAKENEY NORFOLK	BEACHY HEAD	THE VILLAGE OF CORFE

EXETER	VIEW FROM MEADOW BUILDING ENTRANCE, CHRISTCHURCH COLLEGE OXFORD	CAUDEBEC, NORMANDY

WESTMINSTER	MONT ST MICHEL	EXETER

LINCOLN CANAL	PALMA MAJORCA	SYRACUSE

PALMA MAJORCA	A SUNDRENCHED VALLEY	LUDLOW

STANSTADT LAKE LUCERNE	FIELDS UNDER PILATUS IN SPRING TIME	VENETIAN FISHING BOATS

TREES, SWITZERLAND	LAKESIDE TOWN	PALATINE

WHITE CLOUDS	VENETIAN QUAYSIDE	FLORENCE

THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA	TEATRO MARCELLUS	WINCHELSEA

A TREE OF CHARACTER	PILGRIMS STARTING FOR MECCA. CAIRO	COLOSSEUM, PIAZZA BARBERINI, ROME

EXETER	A NILE SUNSET

The son of a builder, Albert Goodwin was born in Maidstone on 17 January 1845. On leaving school, he was apprenticed to a local draper, but after six months he left to take up painting. He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, becoming the pupil of Arthur Hughes, who lived for a time in Maidstone, and later Ford Madox Brown. Brown told his patron Thomas Leathart that he believed Goodwin would ‘become before long one of the greatest landscape painters of the age’. His artistic education was completed by John Ruskin who, in 1871, took Goodwin and Arthur Severn on a three-month tour through Switzerland to Italy. Goodwin never forgot this introduction to alpine scenery, which remained for him a standard of beauty, or to the cities of Italy, which he revisited on numerous occasions. As if demonstrating the programme that Ruskin had laid out in Modern Painters, Goodwin looked increasingly to the example of Turner; at times, however, he tried to synthesise it with the aesthetic of Whistler. This conflict of influences is dramatised to fascinating effect in Goodwin’s privately printed diaries.
Goodwin was a hardworking and prolific artist. He travelled extensively in search of varied, and often exotic, landscapes, and visited Egypt (1876), India (1895), the West Indies and North America (1902, 1912) and New Zealand (1917). Sometimes these sites became settings for literary or biblical subjects, some developed on a large scale and painted in oil. Goodwin exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy (1860-1920) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colour. He became an associate of the RWS in 1871 and a full member a decade later. In addition, he held eight solo shows at the Fine Art Society (1886-1907), three at Leggatt’s (1912-22), two at the Rembrandt Gallery (1902, 1904), and others. Later in his career, he reworked and embellished many of his favourite watercolours, adding ink lines, surrounding them with borders, and assembling them in albums. Through his career, he lived in London, Devon and Sussex. He died on 10 April 1932.

Chris Beetles has mounted a number of important exhibitions of the work of Albert Goodwin, most recently in 1996.

ALBERT GOODWIN RWS (1845-1932)

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