Edward Goodall

Edward Goodall (1795 – 1870) was an English line engraver. He is now best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner.

Life

He was born at Leeds 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 in 1822 or 1823 attracted the attention of Turner, and he became a landscape engraver.^[1]

Goodall died at Hampstead Road, London, on 11 April 1870.^[1]

Works

Karlshafen (1827), engraving by Edward Goodall after Robert Batty

Goodall's major engravins were from the works of Turner.^[2] He made the vignettes for Samuel Rogers's Italy and Poems, and the illustrations to Thomas Campbell's Poems. He engraved also:^[1]

• A Seaport at Sunset and The Marriage Festival of Isaac and Rebecca after Claude Lorrain;
• a Landscape, with Cattle and Figures, after Aelbert Cuyp; and
• The Market Cart after Thomas Gainsborough, 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, for William Finden's Royal Gallery of British Art; and
• The Castle of Ischia, after Clarkson Stanfield, for the Art Union of London.

While landscape engraving was his speciality, he also executed figure subjects, some after the paintings of his son Frederick Goodall. 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. He engraved some plates for The Amulet, and for The Art Journal.^[1][3]

Family

Goodall left three sons, Frederick Goodall, Edward Angelo Goodall, and Walter Goodall, 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 between 1846 and 1855.^[1]

Notes

1.  Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Goodall, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. They included Cologne, Tivoli, with the Temple of the Sybil, Caligula's Bridge—a commission from the artist which was not published—Old London Bridge, and plates for the England and Wales series, and the Southern Coast.
3. 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; Amalfi, Gulf of Salerno, after George Edwards Hering; Manchester from Kersal Moor, after William Wyld; Evening in Italy, after Thomas Miles Richardson; The Monastery, after Oscar Achenbach; and Dido building Carthage, Caligula's Palace and Bridge, Bay of Baiæ, and Ulysses deriding Polyphemus, after Turner.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Goodall, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.