01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edward Angelo Goodall's The Bride, with Footnotes. #182

Edward Alfred Goodall (British, 1819-1908)

The Bride

Oil on canvas

42½ x 32¼ in. (108 x 82 cm.)

Private collection

Goodall made two journeys to the East. Feeling restricted by the genre images which he was producing, he spent the winter of 1858-9 in Egypt. Much of the trip was spent in the company of the Bavarian born watercolorist Carl Haag. The account he gave of his visit leaves no doubt of the visual excitement he received from the scene in Cairo, and he was indefatigable in sketching. Impressed by the gracefulness of the Egyptians and the grandeur of the landscape, Goodall made them the central focus of his art and exhibited the first of his many Orientalist scenes, Early morning in the Wilderness of Shur, at the Royal Academy in 1860. The work was praised by critics and artists, including Sir Edwin Landseer and David Roberts, and established Goodall's reputation. The sale of all of his oil sketches from this tour to the dealer Ernest Gambart for six thousand guineas financed his second visit in 1870-1. On this trip he and a dragoman on (carrying a sketching box designed and given to Goodall by the French animal painter, Rosa Bonheur) joined the nomadic bedouin near Saqqara.

The son of an engraver Edward Goodall and brother of Edward Alfred Goodall, Goodall won a silver medal at the Society of Arts in 1837, at the age of 14. He toured Ireland in 1843 with F.W. Topham and his early works are mainly genre and peasant scenes in the Wilkie tradition. He travelled extensively as did his brother who accompanied the Schomburgh Guiana Boundary Expedition in 1841, visiting the Crimea in 1854 and Morocco, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Two of his sons, Frederick Trevelyan and Herbert Goodall were also painters.

Edward Angelo Goodall (8 June 1819 – 16 April 1908) was an English landscape and orientalist painter, a member of the Goodall family of artists.

Goodall was the son of Edward Goodall, the engraver of J.M.W. Turner's works, and his brothers were the artists Frederick Goodall (1822–1904), a Royal Academician, and Walter Goodall (1830–89). His sister Eliza Goodall (1827–1916) was also an artist. Edward Angelo was apprenticed to his father's office and his own artistic talents came to the fore in his teens when he won a silver medal, and praise from Clarkson Stanfield RA, at the Society of Arts for a picture of the landing of the Lord Mayor at Blackfriars Bridge. His work was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society. More on Edward Angelo Goodall

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