Walter Goodman
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Walter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.
The son of British portrait painter Julia Salaman
(1812–1906) and London
linen draper
and town councillor, Louis Goodman (1811–1876), he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy
in London
, where he was admitted as a student in 1851. Recent research has unearthed details of nearly one hundred works by Goodman. Unfortunately the present whereabouts of most these are unknown, notable exceptions being The Printseller's Window (c.1882), acquired by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
in 1998, portraits of actresses Mary Anne Keeley
(also known as Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore) and Fanny Stirling
(1885), both in the collection of London's Garrick Club
, A Kitchen Cabinet (1882) in a private collection in USA, and a Cuban scene, Home of the Bamboo, in a private collection in Sweden
. Several sketches, paintings and water colours
, are still in the possession of Walter Goodman's descendants.
home of Goodman's uncle, Sir John Simon (1818–1897), who worked on the trial as Edwin James
' junior. The same year The Liverpool Academy
exhibited Doctoring The Cane, which was then exhibited the following year by The British Institution
on Pall Mall
in London
. The British Institution
also exhibited Bible Stories in 1861.
In 1861 Goodman's painting of the Interior of The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Genoa
was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
.
In 1862 The Liverpool
Society of Fine Arts exhibited Il Monte della Croce, San Miniato, Florence
and Interior of The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Genoa).
A publication of 1859 refers to Goodman as a scene painter and goes on to describe Goodman's (and various siblings') appearance in an amateur play staged at the Baker Street
, London home of another uncle, the composer Charles Kensington Salaman
(1814–1901). The production received glowing reviews. A somewhat comical flyer from the same year, of a production at the Goodman family home at Mabledon Place in London, describes Goodman as a hammerteur artist (alluding to the fact that he also constructed the scenery).
, Belgium
, Germany
, Switzerland
, Italy
, and Spain
. He spent almost three years in Florence, beginning in 1861, refining his skills by copying Old Master
paintings at the Uffizi
and Pitti
palaces. There he met fellow artist, Joaquín Cuadras
, whom he painted several times.
One of Goodman's favourite destinations was Spain — he was fluent in Spanish
. He travelled with Cuadras to Barcelona
in 1862, where he spent almost a year, before returning alone to England
and, later, Scotland
. In Edinburgh
, he resided for a short time during 1864 with his journalist brother, Edward, then an assistant to Edinburgh Courant
publisher, James Hannay
, whom he painted (exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
in 1864 ), as well as author David Smith. Another work, entitled Head was also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
the same year.
In 1864, now rejoined by Cuadras, Goodman travelled to Rome
and then on to Saint-Nazaire
in France where they set sail on a French steamer to the West Indies, arriving in Santiago
, Cuba
on May 9, 1864. Most of Goodman's time in the West Indies was spent in Santiago
and Havana
, Cuba, working as an artist and journalist and painting theatrical sets. He also appeared in at least one stage production, putting his fluency in Spanish to good use. Goodman and Cuadras were imprisoned for a short time in the Morro Castle in Santiago
. During his time in Cuba, Goodman contributed articles and letters to the New York Herald
, using the nom de plume el Caballero Inglese. In this capacity he travelled to Port Royal
in Jamaica
in August 1868 in connection with the laying of the undersea cable between Cuba and Jamaica. Eventually civil unrest forced him to flee to New York
in January 1870 on board the American steamer Morro Castle.
He spent only a few months in the United States
before returning to London in the first half of 1870 when he painted portraits of Sir Thomas Brassey MP
, his wife, Lady Anna Brassey
, their children, and Mr. Brassey senior. The Brassey portraits were hung at the Brassey estate at Normanhurst Court
in Sussex
. The same year he painted a Portrait of a Young Boy on a Horse, which found its way to a sale at Christies in London in July 1998.
In 1871 he exhibited a portrait of Evelyn, Daughter of G.J.Reid, Esq. of Tunbridge Wells at the Royal Academy
and his portrait of his uncle, Serjeant Simon M.P. was displayed at the Royal Oak Hotel in Simon's constituency of Dewsbury
, Yorkshire
. Photographic evidence exists of three portraits from 1871–1872, entitled Master Nicholls, Mr N Birkenruth, and Mrs N Birkenruth.
In 1872 Goodman contributed a piece entitled A Cigarette Manufacturer At Havana to the London Society magazine and one called General Tacon's Judgmen to the Daily Pacific Tribune, a Washington newspaper. In 1873 he published an account of his years in Cuba, entitled The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba, to favorable reviews (reprinted in Cuba
in 1986). The book was based upon a series of humorous sketches first published in Charles Dickens
' periodical All the Year Round
. The same year he contributed some sketches of Santiago
to The Graphic
magazine.
painting, as it is described in a publication of the day as a housemaid is cleaning a window, which the spectator is meant to be looking through. The Mail describes it as a pretty housemaid cleaning a window, and seen through the plate glass, a novel idea cleverly worked out. The painting was sold during the exhibition.
In 1877 two pages of drawings of Russian peasantry by Goodman appeared in the Illustrated London News
, as well as an illustration for a Wilkie Collins
story, "A Bit for Bob" in the magazine's Christmas Number, entitled "A Little Baggage."
Around this time, Goodman moved to Bradford
, Yorkshire
and lived with his sister, Alice for several years. Goodman contributed the same drawing to two books in 1879 — God is taking care of me to the Ellen Haile children's book Three Brown Boys and other Happy Children (the other main contributing artist was the renowned children's book illustrator Kate Greenaway
) and Floy's first flight to The One Syllable Book. The same drawing appeared again, in 1885, as Obedient Bessie in a children's book called Little Ramblers and Other Stories. In 1877 he exhibited A Factory Girl depicting a northern England
factory girl returning home from work, at The Dudley Gallery.
That same year Goodman scored two coups involving the new Chinese diplomatic missions to Europe
. Liu Hsi-Hung, Chinese minister to the Court of Berlin
, commissioned him to copy the National Gallery
's Madonna in Prayer by Sassoferrato
, reputedly the first commission given by a Chinese to an English artist. The painting was subsequently dispatched to Germany
. He also painted His Excellency Kuo Ta-Jen (Kuo Sung-Tao), Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's (China's first such ambassador), initially exhibited in 1878 at the Royal Academy
and later at the Walker Art Gallery
in Liverpool
.
The same year Goodman sent another full-length portrait of a A Chinese Lady of Rank (the sitter was Kuo Tai-Tai — the wife of Kuo-Ta-Jen) to the Royal Academy
, after first previewing a preliminary study for Queen Victoria in March 1879 at Windsor Castle
. Kuo Tai-Tai also featured in a group portrait by Goodman, together with her young child and child's nurse. This painting was later taken back to China by the ambassador.
Goodman's trip to Windsor might have led to The Queen's son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
, sitting for Goodman (The Prince never sat for another artist). His portrait was submitted to the Royal Academy
in 1881. A court circular from Marlborough House
dated July 28, 1884 notes that Goodman submitted the portrait of The Duke of Albany to the Prince and Princess of Wales, from where it was currently displayed at The Guildhall
. The painting was purchased sometime between 1881 and 1884 by The National Hospital
in Queen Square
, London
. The hospital has no record of the present whereabouts of the painting.
In the summer of 1883 Goodman sold two oil paintings at J.P. Mendoza's St. James's Gallery at King Street in London — Fresh and Pure (also known as Pure and Undefiled) and Candidate For The Front Row (also known as First at the Gallery Door). Goodman was a member of London's Savage Club
and in 1883 submitted a drawing of the club president, Andrew Halliday
, to the club tombola
. The same year Goodman also produced a pencil and water colour of two children at the door of a theatre that was staging a performance of the pantomime
Little Red Riding Hood
. This painting was sold at auction in Dallas, Texas
in 2011.
In 1884 Goodman offered a water colour, Longing Eyes, for 10 guineas, at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition and the same year submitted two paintings to the City of London Society of Artists — Idle Dreams and In Possession. The latter work was of the two playing children of the artist and illustrator Harry Furniss
.
In a departure from painting portraits, around October 1884 Goodman moved to Chalford
in the Cotswolds
to paint two landscapes of the valley below from the brow of a hill at Cowcombe Woods overlooking the village. He stayed in Chalford for at least five months.
Goodman contributed at least four essays to The Theatre during 1885 and 1886, entitled An English Ballet in Spain, Art Behind the Curtain, An Englishman on the Spanish Stage, and "Box and Cox" in Spanish.
Goodman is also credited with a portrait of the then Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Victoria's second son Alfred). His last Royal Academy submission (1888) was a portrait entitled Mrs. Keeley in her 83rd Year which is recorded as having subsequently found its way to London's bohemian Savage Club
, of which the artist was a member from 1873 to 1894 and where his brother Edward was chairman of the committee. Another Keeley painting, Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore (now housed at the Garrick Club
) was exhibited at Institute of Oil Painters
and Bond Street's Burlington Gallery in 1885. Goodman was an admirer of Mary Anne Keeley
and her acting family, publishing an appreciation in 1895 entitled The Keeleys on the Stage and at Home, which contains engravings of several of his portrait paintings. Goodman's life interest in the theatre culminated in an appearance with Mrs. Keeley in a full-scale production on the stage of the Prince of Wales theatre
on the night of January 16, 1884. At about the same time he painted the actress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon (née Sarah Woolgar) . Another actress whose portrait Goodman painted was Amy Sedgwick. A year after her death in 1897, her third husband presented the portrait to the Garrick Club
, where it remained until 1969. Other arts-related personalities who were captured by Goodman's brush included Negro Delineator, E. W. Mackney, the dramatist Henry Pettitt
and composer Sir George A. MacFarren
(who also sat for Goodman's mother Julia).
In 1887 Goodman exhibited three portraits — Mary Anne Keeley
, Fanny Stirling
(both presumably loaned from The Garrick Club), and Grace Darling
, at the Signor Palladiense Gallery, on Bond Street
in London
. The Keeley and Stirling portraits were also exhibited in 1887 at Messrs Hennah and Kent's studios in London's Old Kent Road
.
In two consecutive annual exhibitions at the Institute of Oil Painters
Goodman exhibited Mr Henry Russell
(1889), Mr Lionel Brough (1890), and Kathleen, the latter of which was sold at the exhibition.
The following year his portrait of The Late Mr. Wilkie Collins at the age of 56
was shown at The Royal Society of British Artists.
In 1890 Goodman contributed at least one painting to an exhibition in New York
. The proceeds from the sale of the paintings were to benefit the ailing Irish-born American artist Arthur Lumley (1837–1912).
On February 18, 1895 his sketch Fifteen Minutes Grace was performed at The Prince of Wales Club).
The Mr Henry Russell
portrait was donated to The Savage Club in 1890, and they lent it to the Exhibition of Dramatic and Musical Art at The Grafton Galleries in 1897.
depiction of the contents of a printseller's window (including the merchant himself, placing a figure in the display). Twelve carte-de-visite photographs are strung across the shop window, along with other photographs depicting artists and critics such as John Ruskin
, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal and Augustus Sala.
The Printseller's Window (also known as The Printseller or A Print Seller's Window in The Strand) was displayed at various London galleries, including St. James's Gallery in 1883, the Burlington Gallery in Bond Street
(together with Mrs. Keeley at Fourscore) from August 1885,
Earls Court
British and Foreign Art galleries Section, and at Imre Kiralfy's Venice
in London exhibition at Olympia in 1892 (where the painting was entitled The Venetian Printseller). The painting was widely reported in the London and provincial newspapers of the day.
This impressive work was also displayed provincially at various locations, including The Walker Art Gallery
in Liverpool in 1883. It was offered for sale at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition the same year, but priced at 315 pounds the painting did not find a buyer, causing the artist to re-exhibit it in 1884 at the Royal Scottish Academy
. Other recorded provincial exhibitions which included The Printseller's Window are Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition (1886) (together with his portrait of Wilkie Collins), Edinburgh Academy of Arts, and Goodman's own studio at 88 Kings Road in Brighton
in 1891. The latest recorded date that The Printseller's Window was shown in Britain was at a show entitled 19th Century Society in 1894. The Printseller's Window was acquired by a Connecticut
art dealer in 1965, and eventually by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
in 1998.
The Printseller's Window is now considered an important example of its genre. The history of the painting and its ownership between the late 1890s and 1965 is unknown, and how it reached the United States is still a mystery.
The Printseller's Window was the subject of an exhibition, Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving A Painter's Puzzle at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester August 14, 2009 – November 15, 2009. A catalog of the exhibition has been published.
, and Miriam, the acclaimed pianist who often accompanied Walter on his musical and dramatic stage outings.
Apart from living overseas for fourteen years, notably in Italy, Spain, Cuba, New York, and with family in Bradford and Edinburgh, Goodman lived with his parents and siblings at numerous central London addresses.
Around 1888 he moved from Notting Hill
, London, to Brighton, where he opened a studio on the premises of The Photographic Company at 88 Kings Road. The Photographic Company was the premises of the husband of his sister Alice — the photographer Edmund Passingham (represented in the National Portrait Gallery). While in Sussex
, Goodman acted as the Brighton correspondent for The Sunday Times
.
On 10 October 1888 Goodman married Clara Isabel Blackiston(b. 1866), from Ashby de la Zouch, Leicester
. They lived first in West Brighton (1888) then in Hove (1891).
In 1892 Goodman is reported to be living in West Kensington
, London, a necessity no doubt due to his appointment as press director of the International Horticultural Exhibition at Earls Court
, London. In this capacity, Goodman was heavily involved in the staging of Buffalo Bill
's Wild West show.
Walter and Clara had a son, Walter Russell in 1889, followed by Joaquin Sedgwick (1891), Reginald Arthur (1893), Julia Constance (1894) and Keeley John (1899).
Goodman probably left his family in Sussex and returned to live in London around 1900. The 1901 UK census lists Clara living as head of the family with the children at Henfield
in Sussex. In 1911 Walter was living with his three eldest sons in Willesdon, London, whilst Clara was living in Chorleywood
, Hertfordshire
with their two youngest children.
. Each essay detailed the often humorous circumstances surrounding a particular painting or series of paintings Goodman had created. The subjects of these essays were entitled:
The Emperor Of The French
Around 1859 Goodman was commissioned to produce a series of seven large (six feet by four feet) panoramic views illustrative of the Italian war of 1859, most of which would feature The French Emperor, Napoleon III. Two of these works were to be transparencies, designed to be artificially lit from behind. Goodman recorded that his cleaning lady almost ruined some of these works due to her over-zealousness and his own forgetfulness. The Emperor never sat for Goodman in person — all paintings were executed with help of the many photographs of Napoleon III that were to be found in London at the time. The paintings were intended for a Continental show and were destined to be shipped to Odessa
. Before this, the series was privately exhibited in the apartment where they had been painted. At the time of writing, in 1893, Goodman had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the seven paintings.
Prince Leopold
In 1881, at Goodman's request, Prince Leopold
sat for him at his London studio. Goodman notes that prior to the Prince's visit on February 5, 1881, he requested that his cleaning lady make the studio extra tidy as he was expecting a prince. During the sitting the Prince's sister, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
, Marchioness of Lorne also paid a visit to Goodman's studio. Prince Leopold
was in failing health and further sittings took place in the somewhat warmer surroundings of the Prince's apartments at Windsor Castle
. Prince Leopold died in 1884, and in that year the painting was exhibited at the Guildhall
.
His Excellency Kuo Sung Tao
In 1878, Goodman was commissioned by the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain
and France
to paint his portrait. The minister in question's family name was Kuo Sung-Tao, and he held the official title of Kuo Ta-Jen. Goodman writes of the difficulties experienced while attempting to capture his subject's grand attire. The sittings took place at Goodman's home at Notting Hill
, London
, and he notes the wonder and excitement of the local inhabitants at the arrival of the ambassador's carriages and at the exotic occupants delivered to his home. By having his portrait painted, Kou Sung-Tao incurred the wrath and ridicule of his countrymen back home. To such an extent in fact that he returned the portrait to Goodman and requested his money back — which Goodman declined to do. Goodman states that he informed His Excellency if it was against the customs of his country for a mandarin to have his portrait painted, it was not less at variance with the rigid rules of the outer barbarian to return money.
A Chinese Lady Of Rank
The lady in question was one of the three wives of the Chinese Ambassador. Her name was Kuo Tai-Tai. Goodman goes to great lengths to explain her exotic appearance and that of her small child, Ying-Sung. The (eighteen) sittings took place in 1879 at the Chinese Legation at Portland Place
, London
(the present day Chinese Embassy). Also described is a reception held at the embassy at which the Prime Minister
of the day, William Ewart Gladstone
was present. The portrait was a group picture of Kuo Tai-Tai, her child Ying-Sung, and the child's nurse.
Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore
Jack Sheppard
After Many Years
In the final essay he contributed to Sala's Journal
, Goodman describes a 17-installment short story about a game of whist
that he wrote for The Manchester Courier, entitled Romance of the Rubber.
Also in 1891, Goodman tried to persuade The Garrick Club to purchase his portraits of Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Alfred Mellon, pledging half the proceeds to a fund to help relieve the financial difficulties of Robert Reece
, who was severely ill. Presumably he failed in this effort as the whereabouts of these two paintings are unknown today.
Around probably 1898 Goodman was commissioned to travel to Poděbrady
castle in Bohemia
to paint the portrait of Prince Hohenlohe
and that of his daughter Elisabeth. According to reports, both works were met with much success. During this trip, while staying at a hotel in Bad Kreuznach
, he organized a firework display in honor of The Queen's birthday. He was assisted in this task by his son, Russell (godson of Henry Russell).
In 1901 Goodman authored a two-part article in the Magazine of Art entitled "Artists Studios: As They Were and As They Are." In the piece Goodman makes it clear that he was on familiar terms (at least enough so as to have been able to visit a number of their studios first hand) with many of the great painters of the Victorian Age, six of whom are portrayed in The Printseller's Window.
The Jewish Chronicle commissioned Goodman to draw a study of his mother, Julia Goodman
on the occasion of her 90th birthday. It appeared in the 7 June 1902 edition of that publication, and in Booklover's Magazine
in February of the following year.
In 1906 Goodman exhibited a portrait of his son, Keeley, at the Institute of Oil Painters
in London. At the Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London in late 1906 he exhibited three works — The Late Sampson Lucas, Mrs Keeley in her 83rd year, and The Cuban Mulatto Girl.
From 1906 Goodman suffered from severe ill health, and was unable to continue painting. By 1908 he had fallen on hard times and in desperation wrote to the Jewish Chronicle asking for donations and financial assistance, giving his wife's Henfield address — even though by this time he had long returned to London was being cared for by his three eldest sons at his final address in Priory Park Road, Willesden, London. However, in December the same year The Strand Magazine provided some welcome financial assistance by publishing his essay Drapery Figures.
Walter Goodman died from cancer on 20 August 1912, at a nursing home in West Hampstead
. His funeral was held on 24 August and he is buried in Hampstead Cemetery
, North London. A small obituary appeared in the 30 August 1912 edition of The Jewish Chronicle
and a more extensive obituary appeared in an unidentified newspaper, listing his notable achievements. These are the last known references to Walter Goodman in the public record.
Dates specified are the earliest recorded date the work was displayed, or in some cases the year it was completed.
The son of British portrait painter Julia Salaman
Julia Goodman
Julia Goodman née Salaman was a British portrait painter.The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
(1812–1906) and London
London
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linen draper
Draper
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and town councillor, Louis Goodman (1811–1876), he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
in London
London
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, where he was admitted as a student in 1851. Recent research has unearthed details of nearly one hundred works by Goodman. Unfortunately the present whereabouts of most these are unknown, notable exceptions being The Printseller's Window (c.1882), acquired by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
in 1998, portraits of actresses Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley, née Goward was an English actress and actor-manager.She was born at Ipswich, her father being a brazier and tinman. After some experience in the provinces, she first appeared on the stage in London on July 2, 1825, in the opera Rosina...
(also known as Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore) and Fanny Stirling
Mary Anne Stirling
Mary Anne Stirling was an English actress-Biography:Stirling was born in London, the daughter of a Captain Kehl. After some experience at outlying theatres, she appeared in London in 1836...
(1885), both in the collection of London's Garrick Club
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Wednesday 17 August 1831...
, A Kitchen Cabinet (1882) in a private collection in USA, and a Cuban scene, Home of the Bamboo, in a private collection in Sweden
Sweden
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. Several sketches, paintings and water colours
Watercolor painting
Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...
, are still in the possession of Walter Goodman's descendants.
Early work
One of Goodman's earliest recorded works is his depiction of the 1858 trial of Dr Simon Bernard over the attempted assassination of Napoleon III. The painting hung in the Tavistock SquareTavistock Square
Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden with a fine garden.-Public art:The centre-piece of the gardens is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which was installed in 1968....
home of Goodman's uncle, Sir John Simon (1818–1897), who worked on the trial as Edwin James
Edwin James
Edwin John James QC was an English lawyer who also practised in the U.S., a Member of Parliament and would-be actor. Disbarred in England and Wales for professional misconduct, he ended his life in poverty...
' junior. The same year The Liverpool Academy
Liverpool Academy of Arts
The Liverpool Academy of Arts was founded in April 1810 as a regional equivalent of the Royal Academy, London. Two local art collectors, Henry Blundell and William Roscoe were its first Patron and Secretary, the Prince Regent gave his patronage for the next three years, and it was actively...
exhibited Doctoring The Cane, which was then exhibited the following year by The British Institution
British Institution
The British Institution was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it was also known as the Pall Mall Picture Galleries or the British Gallery...
on Pall Mall
Pall Mall, London
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in London
London
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. The British Institution
British Institution
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also exhibited Bible Stories in 1861.
In 1861 Goodman's painting of the Interior of The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy is a Scottish organisation that promotes contemporary Scottish art. Founded in 1826, as the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, the RSA maintains a unique position in Scotland as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and...
.
In 1862 The Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
Society of Fine Arts exhibited Il Monte della Croce, San Miniato, Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
and Interior of The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Genoa).
A publication of 1859 refers to Goodman as a scene painter and goes on to describe Goodman's (and various siblings') appearance in an amateur play staged at the Baker Street
Baker Street
Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid the street out in the 18th century. The street is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived at a fictional 221B...
, London home of another uncle, the composer Charles Kensington Salaman
Charles Kensington Salaman
Charles Kensington Salaman was a British pianist and composer.Salaman was born and died in London. His music teachers included Charles Neate and William Crotch, and he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music at the age of ten. He studied in Paris under Henri Herz, and returned to London in...
(1814–1901). The production received glowing reviews. A somewhat comical flyer from the same year, of a production at the Goodman family home at Mabledon Place in London, describes Goodman as a hammerteur artist (alluding to the fact that he also constructed the scenery).
Travel
Beginning in 1860 Goodman undertook extensive travel to FranceFrance
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, Belgium
Belgium
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, Germany
Germany
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, Switzerland
Switzerland
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, Italy
Italy
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, and Spain
Spain
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. He spent almost three years in Florence, beginning in 1861, refining his skills by copying Old Master
Old Master
"Old Master" is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print made by an artist in the same period...
paintings at the Uffizi
Uffizi
The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:...
and Pitti
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...
palaces. There he met fellow artist, Joaquín Cuadras
Joaquin Cuadras
Joaquín Cuadras was a Cuban painter.In 1861 Cuadras met fellow artist Walter Goodman whilst copying Old Master paintings at the Uffizi palace in Florence and the two became friends. They travelled to Barcelona in 1862 and arrived in London a year later.In 1864 he sat for Walter Goodman's mother,...
, whom he painted several times.
One of Goodman's favourite destinations was Spain — he was fluent in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. He travelled with Cuadras to Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
in 1862, where he spent almost a year, before returning alone to England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and, later, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. In Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
, he resided for a short time during 1864 with his journalist brother, Edward, then an assistant to Edinburgh Courant
Edinburgh Courant
The Edinburgh Courant was a broadsheet newspaper from the 18th Century. It was published out of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Its first issue was dated Feb 14-19, 1705 and was sold for a penny. It was one of the country's first regional papers, second only to the Norwich Post...
publisher, James Hannay
James Hannay
James Hannay , was a Scottish novelist, journalist and diplomat.-Biography:Hannay was born at Dumfries, Scotland, and at age 13 joined the Royal Navy from which he was dismissed 5 years later....
, whom he painted (exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy is a Scottish organisation that promotes contemporary Scottish art. Founded in 1826, as the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, the RSA maintains a unique position in Scotland as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and...
in 1864 ), as well as author David Smith. Another work, entitled Head was also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy is a Scottish organisation that promotes contemporary Scottish art. Founded in 1826, as the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, the RSA maintains a unique position in Scotland as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and...
the same year.
In 1864, now rejoined by Cuadras, Goodman travelled to Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and then on to Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire , is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.The town has a major harbour, on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean. The town is at the south of the second-largest swamp in France, called "la Brière"...
in France where they set sail on a French steamer to the West Indies, arriving in Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....
, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
on May 9, 1864. Most of Goodman's time in the West Indies was spent in Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....
and Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, Cuba, working as an artist and journalist and painting theatrical sets. He also appeared in at least one stage production, putting his fluency in Spanish to good use. Goodman and Cuadras were imprisoned for a short time in the Morro Castle in Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....
. During his time in Cuba, Goodman contributed articles and letters to the New York Herald
New York Herald
The New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835, and 1924.-History:The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Sr., on May 6, 1835. By 1845 it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the UnitedStates...
, using the nom de plume el Caballero Inglese. In this capacity he travelled to Port Royal
Port Royal
Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518, it was the centre of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century...
in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
in August 1868 in connection with the laying of the undersea cable between Cuba and Jamaica. Eventually civil unrest forced him to flee to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
in January 1870 on board the American steamer Morro Castle.
He spent only a few months in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
before returning to London in the first half of 1870 when he painted portraits of Sir Thomas Brassey MP
Thomas Brassey
Thomas Brassey was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one...
, his wife, Lady Anna Brassey
Anna Brassey
Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book, A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878....
, their children, and Mr. Brassey senior. The Brassey portraits were hung at the Brassey estate at Normanhurst Court
Normanhurst Court
Normanhurst Court was a large manor house in the village of Catsfield in East Sussex.-History:The building of the house was initiated by Thomas Brassey, one of the leading railway builders of the nineteenth century. The works, which were carried out by Lucas Brothers, were completed shortly after...
in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
. The same year he painted a Portrait of a Young Boy on a Horse, which found its way to a sale at Christies in London in July 1998.
In 1871 he exhibited a portrait of Evelyn, Daughter of G.J.Reid, Esq. of Tunbridge Wells at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
and his portrait of his uncle, Serjeant Simon M.P. was displayed at the Royal Oak Hotel in Simon's constituency of Dewsbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
. Photographic evidence exists of three portraits from 1871–1872, entitled Master Nicholls, Mr N Birkenruth, and Mrs N Birkenruth.
In 1872 Goodman contributed a piece entitled A Cigarette Manufacturer At Havana to the London Society magazine and one called General Tacon's Judgmen to the Daily Pacific Tribune, a Washington newspaper. In 1873 he published an account of his years in Cuba, entitled The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba, to favorable reviews (reprinted in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
in 1986). The book was based upon a series of humorous sketches first published in Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
' periodical All the Year Round
All the Year Round
All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom. Edited by Dickens, it was the direct successor to his previous publication Household Words, abandoned due to...
. The same year he contributed some sketches of Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....
to The Graphic
The Graphic
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited....
magazine.
Prolific period
The February, 1874 issue of Cassell's Magazine included two articles by Goodman titled "Saved From a Wreck" and "Cuba Without a Master." In April of that year he wrote another article for the same magazine called "A Holiday in Cuba", which he illustrated with a pretty Cuban girl looking through a barred window. That winter also saw the exhibition of oil paintings titled Young Castile and Voices of the Sea at London's Dudley and French Galleries, respectively. In 1876 he exhibited a drawing, The Language of the Face at The Black and White Exhibition at The Dudley Gallery and Morning Work at the London Exhibition of Fine Arts. The latter work was probably a trompe l'oeilTrompe l'oeil
Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil, is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.-History in painting:Although the phrase has its origin in...
painting, as it is described in a publication of the day as a housemaid is cleaning a window, which the spectator is meant to be looking through. The Mail describes it as a pretty housemaid cleaning a window, and seen through the plate glass, a novel idea cleverly worked out. The painting was sold during the exhibition.
In 1877 two pages of drawings of Russian peasantry by Goodman appeared in the Illustrated London News
Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper; the first issue appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842. It was published weekly until 1971 and then increasingly less frequently until publication ceased in 2003.-History:...
, as well as an illustration for a Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...
story, "A Bit for Bob" in the magazine's Christmas Number, entitled "A Little Baggage."
Around this time, Goodman moved to Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
and lived with his sister, Alice for several years. Goodman contributed the same drawing to two books in 1879 — God is taking care of me to the Ellen Haile children's book Three Brown Boys and other Happy Children (the other main contributing artist was the renowned children's book illustrator Kate Greenaway
Kate Greenaway
Catherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...
) and Floy's first flight to The One Syllable Book. The same drawing appeared again, in 1885, as Obedient Bessie in a children's book called Little Ramblers and Other Stories. In 1877 he exhibited A Factory Girl depicting a northern England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
factory girl returning home from work, at The Dudley Gallery.
That same year Goodman scored two coups involving the new Chinese diplomatic missions to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Liu Hsi-Hung, Chinese minister to the Court of Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, commissioned him to copy the National Gallery
National Gallery, London
The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media...
's Madonna in Prayer by Sassoferrato
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato , also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi, was an Italian Baroque painter. He is often referred to only by the town of his birthplace , as was customary in his time, and for example seen with da Vinci and Caravaggio.-Biography:The details of Giovanni Battista...
, reputedly the first commission given by a Chinese to an English artist. The painting was subsequently dispatched to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. He also painted His Excellency Kuo Ta-Jen (Kuo Sung-Tao), Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's (China's first such ambassador), initially exhibited in 1878 at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
and later at the Walker Art Gallery
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part...
in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
.
The same year Goodman sent another full-length portrait of a A Chinese Lady of Rank (the sitter was Kuo Tai-Tai — the wife of Kuo-Ta-Jen) to the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, after first previewing a preliminary study for Queen Victoria in March 1879 at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...
. Kuo Tai-Tai also featured in a group portrait by Goodman, together with her young child and child's nurse. This painting was later taken back to China by the ambassador.
Goodman's trip to Windsor might have led to The Queen's son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...
, sitting for Goodman (The Prince never sat for another artist). His portrait was submitted to the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
in 1881. A court circular from Marlborough House
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...
dated July 28, 1884 notes that Goodman submitted the portrait of The Duke of Albany to the Prince and Princess of Wales, from where it was currently displayed at The Guildhall
Guildhall, London
The Guildhall is a building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation...
. The painting was purchased sometime between 1881 and 1884 by The National Hospital
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery is a neurological hospital in London, United Kingdom and part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...
in Queen Square
Queen Square
Queen Square is a square in the Bloomsbury district of the London Borough of Camden, England. Queen Square was originally constructed between 1716 and 1725.- Name :...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The hospital has no record of the present whereabouts of the painting.
In the summer of 1883 Goodman sold two oil paintings at J.P. Mendoza's St. James's Gallery at King Street in London — Fresh and Pure (also known as Pure and Undefiled) and Candidate For The Front Row (also known as First at the Gallery Door). Goodman was a member of London's Savage Club
Savage Club
The Savage Club, founded in 1857 is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:Many and varied are the stories that have been told about the first meeting of the Savage Club, of the precise purposes for which it was formed, and of its christening...
and in 1883 submitted a drawing of the club president, Andrew Halliday
Andrew Halliday
Andrew Halliday [formerly Andrew Halliday Duff] was a Scottish journalist and dramatist.He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1849 he went to London, and discarding the name of Duff, devoted himself to literature...
, to the club tombola
Tombola
Tombola may refer to:* A type of raffle popular in Britain, Croatia, Italy, Turkey and Austria* Tómbola, an entertainment news TV show on TeleFutura* Operation Tombola, a WWII Allied operation in ItalySee also...
. The same year Goodman also produced a pencil and water colour of two children at the door of a theatre that was staging a performance of the pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....
. This painting was sold at auction in Dallas, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
in 2011.
In 1884 Goodman offered a water colour, Longing Eyes, for 10 guineas, at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition and the same year submitted two paintings to the City of London Society of Artists — Idle Dreams and In Possession. The latter work was of the two playing children of the artist and illustrator Harry Furniss
Harry Furniss
Henry Furniss was an artist and illustrator, born in Wexford, Ireland. His father was English and his mother Scottish, Furniss identifying himself as English...
.
Chalford
Chalford is a village in the Frome Valley of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is about 8 km upstream of Stroud. It gives its name to Chalford parish, which covers the villages of Chalford, Chalford Hill, France Lynch, Bussage and Brownshill, spread over 2 mi² of the...
in the Cotswolds
Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
to paint two landscapes of the valley below from the brow of a hill at Cowcombe Woods overlooking the village. He stayed in Chalford for at least five months.
Goodman contributed at least four essays to The Theatre during 1885 and 1886, entitled An English Ballet in Spain, Art Behind the Curtain, An Englishman on the Spanish Stage, and "Box and Cox" in Spanish.
Goodman is also credited with a portrait of the then Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Victoria's second son Alfred). His last Royal Academy submission (1888) was a portrait entitled Mrs. Keeley in her 83rd Year which is recorded as having subsequently found its way to London's bohemian Savage Club
Savage Club
The Savage Club, founded in 1857 is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:Many and varied are the stories that have been told about the first meeting of the Savage Club, of the precise purposes for which it was formed, and of its christening...
, of which the artist was a member from 1873 to 1894 and where his brother Edward was chairman of the committee. Another Keeley painting, Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore (now housed at the Garrick Club
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Wednesday 17 August 1831...
) was exhibited at Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as ROI, is an association of painters in London and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil. It is a member society of the Federation of British Artists.-History:...
and Bond Street's Burlington Gallery in 1885. Goodman was an admirer of Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley, née Goward was an English actress and actor-manager.She was born at Ipswich, her father being a brazier and tinman. After some experience in the provinces, she first appeared on the stage in London on July 2, 1825, in the opera Rosina...
and her acting family, publishing an appreciation in 1895 entitled The Keeleys on the Stage and at Home, which contains engravings of several of his portrait paintings. Goodman's life interest in the theatre culminated in an appearance with Mrs. Keeley in a full-scale production on the stage of the Prince of Wales theatre
Prince of Wales Theatre
The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner...
on the night of January 16, 1884. At about the same time he painted the actress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon (née Sarah Woolgar) . Another actress whose portrait Goodman painted was Amy Sedgwick. A year after her death in 1897, her third husband presented the portrait to the Garrick Club
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Wednesday 17 August 1831...
, where it remained until 1969. Other arts-related personalities who were captured by Goodman's brush included Negro Delineator, E. W. Mackney, the dramatist Henry Pettitt
Henry Pettitt
Henry Alfred Pettitt , was a British actor and dramatist.With Augustus Harris, he wrote the play Burmah, produced on Broadway in 1896. With G. R...
and composer Sir George A. MacFarren
George Alexander Macfarren
Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...
(who also sat for Goodman's mother Julia).
In 1887 Goodman exhibited three portraits — Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley
Mary Anne Keeley, née Goward was an English actress and actor-manager.She was born at Ipswich, her father being a brazier and tinman. After some experience in the provinces, she first appeared on the stage in London on July 2, 1825, in the opera Rosina...
, Fanny Stirling
Mary Anne Stirling
Mary Anne Stirling was an English actress-Biography:Stirling was born in London, the daughter of a Captain Kehl. After some experience at outlying theatres, she appeared in London in 1836...
(both presumably loaned from The Garrick Club), and Grace Darling
Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.-Biography:...
, at the Signor Palladiense Gallery, on Bond Street
Bond Street
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London that runs north-south through Mayfair between Oxford Street and Piccadilly. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century and is currently the home of many high price fashion shops...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The Keeley and Stirling portraits were also exhibited in 1887 at Messrs Hennah and Kent's studios in London's Old Kent Road
Old Kent Road
The Old Kent Road is a road in South East London, England and forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. The street is famous as the equal cheapest property on the London Monopoly board and as the only one in South London....
.
In two consecutive annual exhibitions at the Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as ROI, is an association of painters in London and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil. It is a member society of the Federation of British Artists.-History:...
Goodman exhibited Mr Henry Russell
Henry Russell (musician)
Henry Russell was an English pianist, baritone singer and composer, born into a distinguished Jewish family.-Biography:...
(1889), Mr Lionel Brough (1890), and Kathleen, the latter of which was sold at the exhibition.
The following year his portrait of The Late Mr. Wilkie Collins at the age of 56
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...
was shown at The Royal Society of British Artists.
In 1890 Goodman contributed at least one painting to an exhibition in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. The proceeds from the sale of the paintings were to benefit the ailing Irish-born American artist Arthur Lumley (1837–1912).
On February 18, 1895 his sketch Fifteen Minutes Grace was performed at The Prince of Wales Club).
The Mr Henry Russell
Henry Russell (musician)
Henry Russell was an English pianist, baritone singer and composer, born into a distinguished Jewish family.-Biography:...
portrait was donated to The Savage Club in 1890, and they lent it to the Exhibition of Dramatic and Musical Art at The Grafton Galleries in 1897.
The Printseller's Window
Around 1883 Goodman painted a fascinating trompe l'oeilTrompe l'oeil
Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil, is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.-History in painting:Although the phrase has its origin in...
depiction of the contents of a printseller's window (including the merchant himself, placing a figure in the display). Twelve carte-de-visite photographs are strung across the shop window, along with other photographs depicting artists and critics such as John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal and Augustus Sala.
The Printseller's Window (also known as The Printseller or A Print Seller's Window in The Strand) was displayed at various London galleries, including St. James's Gallery in 1883, the Burlington Gallery in Bond Street
Bond Street
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London that runs north-south through Mayfair between Oxford Street and Piccadilly. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century and is currently the home of many high price fashion shops...
(together with Mrs. Keeley at Fourscore) from August 1885,
Earls Court
Earls Court
Earls Court is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It is an inner-city district centred on Earl's Court Road and surrounding streets, located 3.1 miles west south-west of Charing Cross. It borders the sub-districts of South Kensington to the East, West...
British and Foreign Art galleries Section, and at Imre Kiralfy's Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
in London exhibition at Olympia in 1892 (where the painting was entitled The Venetian Printseller). The painting was widely reported in the London and provincial newspapers of the day.
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part...
in Liverpool in 1883. It was offered for sale at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition the same year, but priced at 315 pounds the painting did not find a buyer, causing the artist to re-exhibit it in 1884 at the Royal Scottish Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy is a Scottish organisation that promotes contemporary Scottish art. Founded in 1826, as the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, the RSA maintains a unique position in Scotland as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and...
. Other recorded provincial exhibitions which included The Printseller's Window are Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition (1886) (together with his portrait of Wilkie Collins), Edinburgh Academy of Arts, and Goodman's own studio at 88 Kings Road in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
in 1891. The latest recorded date that The Printseller's Window was shown in Britain was at a show entitled 19th Century Society in 1894. The Printseller's Window was acquired by a Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
art dealer in 1965, and eventually by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
in 1998.
The Printseller's Window is now considered an important example of its genre. The history of the painting and its ownership between the late 1890s and 1965 is unknown, and how it reached the United States is still a mystery.
The Printseller's Window was the subject of an exhibition, Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving A Painter's Puzzle at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester August 14, 2009 – November 15, 2009. A catalog of the exhibition has been published.
Family
Walter Goodman was one seven children, amonsgt whom were Edward, the travel writer, author, and sub-editor of The Daily TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, and Miriam, the acclaimed pianist who often accompanied Walter on his musical and dramatic stage outings.
Apart from living overseas for fourteen years, notably in Italy, Spain, Cuba, New York, and with family in Bradford and Edinburgh, Goodman lived with his parents and siblings at numerous central London addresses.
Around 1888 he moved from Notting Hill
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...
, London, to Brighton, where he opened a studio on the premises of The Photographic Company at 88 Kings Road. The Photographic Company was the premises of the husband of his sister Alice — the photographer Edmund Passingham (represented in the National Portrait Gallery). While in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, Goodman acted as the Brighton correspondent for The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
.
On 10 October 1888 Goodman married Clara Isabel Blackiston(b. 1866), from Ashby de la Zouch, Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
. They lived first in West Brighton (1888) then in Hove (1891).
In 1892 Goodman is reported to be living in West Kensington
West Kensington
- Commercial/education :Local business consists of small shops, offices and restaurants, with the Olympia Exhibition Centre nearby. Indeed, it is the mix of local shops that give the area its character....
, London, a necessity no doubt due to his appointment as press director of the International Horticultural Exhibition at Earls Court
Earls Court
Earls Court is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It is an inner-city district centred on Earl's Court Road and surrounding streets, located 3.1 miles west south-west of Charing Cross. It borders the sub-districts of South Kensington to the East, West...
, London. In this capacity, Goodman was heavily involved in the staging of Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...
's Wild West show.
Walter and Clara had a son, Walter Russell in 1889, followed by Joaquin Sedgwick (1891), Reginald Arthur (1893), Julia Constance (1894) and Keeley John (1899).
Goodman probably left his family in Sussex and returned to live in London around 1900. The 1901 UK census lists Clara living as head of the family with the children at Henfield
Henfield
Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. The parish has a land area of . In the 2001 census 5,012...
in Sussex. In 1911 Walter was living with his three eldest sons in Willesdon, London, whilst Clara was living in Chorleywood
Chorleywood
Chorleywood is a village and civil parish in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. It had a population of 6,814 people at the 2001 census. The parish of Chorleywood as a whole has a population of 10,775. The town lies in the far south west of Hertfordshire, on the...
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
with their two youngest children.
People I Have Painted
Between 11 February and 1 July 1893 Goodman contributed a weekly essay People I Have Painted to Sala's JournalGeorge Augustus Henry Sala
George Augustus Henry Sala , English journalist.-Biography:Sala was born in London; his father being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother an actress and teacher of singing...
. Each essay detailed the often humorous circumstances surrounding a particular painting or series of paintings Goodman had created. The subjects of these essays were entitled:
The Emperor Of The French
Around 1859 Goodman was commissioned to produce a series of seven large (six feet by four feet) panoramic views illustrative of the Italian war of 1859, most of which would feature The French Emperor, Napoleon III. Two of these works were to be transparencies, designed to be artificially lit from behind. Goodman recorded that his cleaning lady almost ruined some of these works due to her over-zealousness and his own forgetfulness. The Emperor never sat for Goodman in person — all paintings were executed with help of the many photographs of Napoleon III that were to be found in London at the time. The paintings were intended for a Continental show and were destined to be shipped to Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
. Before this, the series was privately exhibited in the apartment where they had been painted. At the time of writing, in 1893, Goodman had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the seven paintings.
Prince Leopold
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...
In 1881, at Goodman's request, Prince Leopold
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...
sat for him at his London studio. Goodman notes that prior to the Prince's visit on February 5, 1881, he requested that his cleaning lady make the studio extra tidy as he was expecting a prince. During the sitting the Prince's sister, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort.Louise's early life was spent moving between the various royal residences in the...
, Marchioness of Lorne also paid a visit to Goodman's studio. Prince Leopold
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...
was in failing health and further sittings took place in the somewhat warmer surroundings of the Prince's apartments at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...
. Prince Leopold died in 1884, and in that year the painting was exhibited at the Guildhall
Guildhall, London
The Guildhall is a building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation...
.
His Excellency Kuo Sung Tao
In 1878, Goodman was commissioned by the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
to paint his portrait. The minister in question's family name was Kuo Sung-Tao, and he held the official title of Kuo Ta-Jen. Goodman writes of the difficulties experienced while attempting to capture his subject's grand attire. The sittings took place at Goodman's home at Notting Hill
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, and he notes the wonder and excitement of the local inhabitants at the arrival of the ambassador's carriages and at the exotic occupants delivered to his home. By having his portrait painted, Kou Sung-Tao incurred the wrath and ridicule of his countrymen back home. To such an extent in fact that he returned the portrait to Goodman and requested his money back — which Goodman declined to do. Goodman states that he informed His Excellency if it was against the customs of his country for a mandarin to have his portrait painted, it was not less at variance with the rigid rules of the outer barbarian to return money.
A Chinese Lady Of Rank
The lady in question was one of the three wives of the Chinese Ambassador. Her name was Kuo Tai-Tai. Goodman goes to great lengths to explain her exotic appearance and that of her small child, Ying-Sung. The (eighteen) sittings took place in 1879 at the Chinese Legation at Portland Place
Portland Place
Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London, England.-History and topography:The street was laid out by the brothers Robert and James Adam for the Duke of Portland in the late 18th century and originally ran north from the gardens of a detached mansion called Foley House...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
(the present day Chinese Embassy). Also described is a reception held at the embassy at which the Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
of the day, William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
was present. The portrait was a group picture of Kuo Tai-Tai, her child Ying-Sung, and the child's nurse.
Mrs. Keeley At Fourscore
Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete...
After Many Years
In the final essay he contributed to Sala's Journal
George Augustus Henry Sala
George Augustus Henry Sala , English journalist.-Biography:Sala was born in London; his father being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother an actress and teacher of singing...
, Goodman describes a 17-installment short story about a game of whist
Whist
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. It derives from the 16th century game of Trump or Ruff, via Ruff and Honours...
that he wrote for The Manchester Courier, entitled Romance of the Rubber.
Later years
Around 1890 Goodman painted a portrait of Brighton resident The Countess of Munster and this was exhibited in his Brighton Studio in 1891 together with The Printseller's Window and the Wilkie Collins portrait. He also exhibited a replica of his Chinese Ambassador portrait here the same year.Also in 1891, Goodman tried to persuade The Garrick Club to purchase his portraits of Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Alfred Mellon, pledging half the proceeds to a fund to help relieve the financial difficulties of Robert Reece
Robert Reece
Robert Reece was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era. He wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas, farces and adaptations from the French, including the English-language adaptation of the operetta Les cloches de Corneville, which became the...
, who was severely ill. Presumably he failed in this effort as the whereabouts of these two paintings are unknown today.
Around probably 1898 Goodman was commissioned to travel to Poděbrady
Podebrady
Poděbrady is a historical spa town in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It lies on the river Labe 50 km east of Prague on the D11 highway. A historic milestone in the life of the town was the year 1905, when it was visited by the German estate owner Prince von Bülow...
castle in Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
to paint the portrait of Prince Hohenlohe
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey , usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Prussia from 1894 to 1900...
and that of his daughter Elisabeth. According to reports, both works were met with much success. During this trip, while staying at a hotel in Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach is the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river, a tributary of the Rhine...
, he organized a firework display in honor of The Queen's birthday. He was assisted in this task by his son, Russell (godson of Henry Russell).
In 1901 Goodman authored a two-part article in the Magazine of Art entitled "Artists Studios: As They Were and As They Are." In the piece Goodman makes it clear that he was on familiar terms (at least enough so as to have been able to visit a number of their studios first hand) with many of the great painters of the Victorian Age, six of whom are portrayed in The Printseller's Window.
The Jewish Chronicle commissioned Goodman to draw a study of his mother, Julia Goodman
Julia Goodman
Julia Goodman née Salaman was a British portrait painter.The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
on the occasion of her 90th birthday. It appeared in the 7 June 1902 edition of that publication, and in Booklover's Magazine
Appleton's Magazine
Appleton's Magazine was a monthly magazine published by D. Appleton & Co., New York in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Originally called Appleton's Journal, it was published under that name from April, 1869 to December, 1881...
in February of the following year.
In 1906 Goodman exhibited a portrait of his son, Keeley, at the Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as ROI, is an association of painters in London and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil. It is a member society of the Federation of British Artists.-History:...
in London. At the Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London in late 1906 he exhibited three works — The Late Sampson Lucas, Mrs Keeley in her 83rd year, and The Cuban Mulatto Girl.
From 1906 Goodman suffered from severe ill health, and was unable to continue painting. By 1908 he had fallen on hard times and in desperation wrote to the Jewish Chronicle asking for donations and financial assistance, giving his wife's Henfield address — even though by this time he had long returned to London was being cared for by his three eldest sons at his final address in Priory Park Road, Willesden, London. However, in December the same year The Strand Magazine provided some welcome financial assistance by publishing his essay Drapery Figures.
Walter Goodman died from cancer on 20 August 1912, at a nursing home in West Hampstead
West Hampstead
West Hampstead is an area in northwest London, England, situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east, Swiss Cottage to the east, and South Hampstead to the south. Until the late 19th century, the locale was a small village called West End...
. His funeral was held on 24 August and he is buried in Hampstead Cemetery
Hampstead Cemetery
Hampstead Cemetery is a historic cemetery in West Hampstead, London, located at the upper extremity of the NW6 district. Despite the name, the cemetery is three-quarters of a mile from Hampstead Village, and bears a different postcode...
, North London. A small obituary appeared in the 30 August 1912 edition of The Jewish Chronicle
The Jewish Chronicle
The Jewish Chronicle is a London-based Jewish newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.-Publication data and readership figures:...
and a more extensive obituary appeared in an unidentified newspaper, listing his notable achievements. These are the last known references to Walter Goodman in the public record.
Paintings and drawings
| Title or subject | Date | Exhibited | Present whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctoring the Cane | Liverpool Academy (1858) British Institution, London (1859) |
Unknown | |
| Trail of Dr Simon Bernard in the assassination attempt of Napoleon III | Sir John Simon's house, Tavistock Square, London (1858) |
Unknown | |
| Battle of Montebello, with 84th Regiment, headed by Colonel Cambuels and General Forey, attacking the Austrians |
c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| Attack and capture of the Bridge of Magenta by General Vinoy | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| The Emperor of The French at Solferino | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| Bivouac of French Troops at Alessandria | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| The Emperor Visiting the Wounded in Hospital | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| Reception of he Emperor and Count Cavour at Genoa | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| Peace Rejoicings at Milan, with the Cathedral brilliantly illuminated | c. 1859 | Private exhibition at the apartment of the artist (c. 1859). Soon after shipped to an exhibition in Odessa in present-day Ukraine. | Unknown |
| Bible Stories | British Institution, London (1861) | Unknown | |
| Interior of The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Genoa | The Royal Scottish Academy (1861) The Liverpool Society of Fine Arts (1862) |
Unknown | |
| Il Monte della Croce, San Miniato, Florence | The Liverpool Society of Fine Arts (1862) | Unknown | |
| Pancho Roblejo | 1864 | Unknown | |
| Joaquin Cuadras | 1864 | Unknown | |
| Don Baltasar Torrecillas (24 distemper sketches of the performer in different costumes) | 1864 | Unknown | |
| The late daughter of Don Magin of Santiago, Cuba | 1864–1869 | Cuba | Unknown |
| The late Don Pancho Aguerro y Matos of Santiago, Cuba | 1864–1869 | Cuba | Unknown |
| Sabrina de la Torre | 1868 | Cuba | Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England |
| James Hannay, Esq. | Royal Scottish Academy (1864) | Unknown | |
| David Smith | 1864 | Unknown | |
| Head | Royal Scottish Academy (1864) | Unknown | |
| Sir Thomas Brassey (crayon) | 1870 | Normanhurst Court, Sussex (1870–?) | Unknown |
| Lady Anna Brassey (crayon) | 1870 | Normanhurst Court, Sussex (1870–?) | Unknown |
| The Brassey children (probably more than one portrait) | 1870 | Normanhurst Court, Sussex (1870–?) | Unknown |
| Thomas Brassey Esq. senior | 1870 | Normanhurst Court, Sussex (1870–?) | Unknown |
| Portrait of a Young Boy on a Horse | 1870 | Christies South Kensington, London (July 1998) | Unknown |
| Mr Serjeant Simon MP | Royal Oak Hotel, Dewsbury, Yorkshire (1871) | Unknown | |
| Evelyn, daughter of G. J. Reid esq. | Royal Academy (1871) | Unknown | |
| Portrait of child holding a letter | 1872 | Lawrences Auctioneers, Somerset (2001) Dreweatts Auctioneers, Devon, (2002) Private collector Bristol, Somerset (2002-2005) |
Private collection in USA |
| Master Nicholls | 1872 | Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England | |
| Mr. N Birkenruth | 1873 | Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England | |
| Mrs. N Birkenruth | 1873 | Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England | |
| Young Castile | Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, The Dudley Gallery (1874) | Unknown | |
| Voices Of The Sea | Exhibition of Pictures by British and Foreign Artists, The French Gallery in Pall Mall (1874) | Unknown | |
| Morning Work (also known as Cleaning Windows) | London Exhibition of Fine Arts (1876) | Unknown | |
| The Language Of The Face (drawing) | The Dudley Gallery (1876) | Unknown | |
| A Factory Girl | The Dudley Gallery (1878) | Unknown | |
| His Excellency Kuo Ta-Jen | Royal Academy (1878) The Walker Art Gallery (1879) |
Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England | |
| Madonna in Prayer (Commissioned copy of Sassofferato's work) | Chinese Embassy, London (1878) Berlin, Germany after 1879 |
Unknown | |
| A Chinese Lady of Rank | Windsor Castle (1879) Royal Academy (1879) |
Unknown, but a photograph exists in a private collection in England | |
| Portrait of a Chinese lady in native attire. (Kuo Tai-Tai — the wife of Kuo-Ta-Jen — with her new son, Ying-Sung, and the child's nurse) | 1879 | Taken to China by Kuo Ta-Jen soon after it was completed. Unknown |
|
| Self-portrait | 1880 | Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving A Painter's Puzzle, The Lockhart Gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA (2009) | Private collection in USA |
| HRH Prince Leopold | Royal Academy (1881) The Guildhall (1884) Manchester Institution Royal Manchester Institution The Royal Manchester Institution was an 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 city lacking in culture and taste.The Institution was housed in a... (1884) Malborough House (1884) Prince Leopold Wing of The National Hospital in London (1884–?) |
Unknown | |
| A Kitchen Cabinet | 1882 | Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving A Painter's Puzzle, The Lockhart Gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA (2009) | Private collection in USA |
| Home of The Bamboo | c. 1882 | Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving A Painter's Puzzle, The Lockhart Gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA (2009) | Private collection in Sweden |
| The Printseller's Window | c. 1882 | St. James's Gallery, London (1883) The Walker Art Gallery (1883) Liverpool Autumn Exhibition (1883) Royal Scottish Academy (1884) Burlington Gallery, Bond Street (1884) Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition (1886) Edinburgh Academy of Arts (c. 1886) Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) British and Foreign Art Galleries Section, Earls Court (1891) Venice in London Exhibition, Olympia (1891) 19th Century Society Exhibition (1894) Tillou Gallery, Connecticut, USA (1965) Newport, Rhode Island, USA (arr. Tillou) (1965) Alexander Gallery, New York, USA (1969) Masco Corporation, Taylor, Michigan, USA (1986) The Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, USA (1986) The American Spirit: 19th Century Masterpieces from the Masco Collection (1994) Sotheby's, New York, USA (1998) Permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA (1998) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (2002–2003) Walter Goodman's The Printseller: Solving A Painter's Puzzle, The Lockhart Gallery of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA (2009) |
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, USA |
| Fresh and Pure (also known as Pure and Undefiled) | St. James's Gallery, London (1883) | Unknown | |
| Candidate For The Front Row (also known as First at the Gallery Door) | St. James's Gallery, London (1883) | Unknown | |
| Andrew Halliday (drawing) | 1883 | Savage Club, London (1883) | Unknown |
| At The Theatre Door | 1883 | Private collection in Sweden | |
| Idle Dreams | City of London Society of Artists (1884) | Unknown | |
| In Possession | City of London Society of Artists (1884) | Unknown | |
| Longing Eyes | Liverpool Autumn Exhibition (1884) | Private collection in England | |
| Mrs. Alfred Mellon | 1884 | Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) | Unknown |
| Mrs. Keeley at Fourscore | 1884 | Institute of Oil Painters (1885) Burlington Gallery, Bond Street (1885) Presented to The Garrick Club (1886) Signor Palladiense Gallery, London (1887) Hennah and Kent's Studio, Old Kent Road, London (1887) |
The Garrick Club, London |
| Mrs. Keeley at Fourscore (drawing for Pall Mall Gazette) | 1885 | Unknown | |
| The Golden Valley (landscape of Chalford valley) | 1884–1885 | Unknown | |
| The Golden Valley (second landscape of Chalford valley) | 1884–1885 | Unknown | |
| Mr G. Holloway (drawing) | 1884 | Unknown | |
| Untitled painting of the 2 year old baby in the stage production My Sweetheart | 1886 | Sent to California after completion | Unknown |
| Fanny Stirling | Presented to The Garrick Club (1886) Signor Palladiense Gallery, London (1887) Hennah and Kent's Studio, Old Kent Road, London (1887) |
The Garrick Club, London | |
| Grace Darling | Signor Palladiense Gallery, London (1887) | Unknown | |
| Louise Williams | c. 1887 | Unknown | |
| Mrs. Keeley in her 83rd year (also known as The Academy Keeley) |
Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1888) Royal Academy (1888) The Savage Club (1888 or later) Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1906) |
Unknown | |
| Mr Henry Russell (also known as Henry Russell at 77) | Institute of Oil Painters (1889) Presented to The Savage Club (1890) Exhibition of Dramatic and Musical Art, The Grafton Galleries, London (1897) |
Unknown | |
| Amy Sedgwick | 1889 | Presented to The Garrick Club (1897), deaccessioned in 1965 | Unknown |
| Mr. Lionel Brough | Institute of Oil Painters (1889) | Unknown | |
| Kathleen | Institute of Oil Painters (1889) | Unknown | |
| His Excellency Kuo Ta-Jen (replica of original) | Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) | Unknown | |
| Countess of Munster | Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) | Unknown | |
| Untitled children in black and white (drawing) | Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) | Unknown | |
| Untitled children in black and white (second drawing) | Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) | Unknown | |
| Benvenuto Barovier | 1891 | Unknown | |
| The Late Mr. Wilkie Collins at the age of 56 (also known as Wilkie Collins) |
Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition (1886) The Royal Society of British Artists (1890) Goodman's Studios at 88 Kings Road, Brighton (1891) |
Unknown | |
| Prince Hohenlohe | Late 1890s | Poděbrady, Bohemia | Unknown |
| Prince Hohenlohe's daughter, Elisabeth | Late 1890s | Poděbrady, Bohemia | Unknown |
| Julia Goodman (drawing) | 1902 | Private collection in England | |
| Young Keeley | 1905 | Institute of Oil Painters (1906) | Private collection in England |
| The Late Mr. Samson Lucas | Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1906) | Unknown | |
| The Cuban Mulatto Girl | Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1906) | Unknown | |
| Mary Anne Keeley | Private collection in England | ||
| Untitled portrait of a young woman possibly entitled Beguiling Eyes |
Private collection in England | ||
| Untitled portrait of a young woman in period clothes with ruff |
Private collection in England | ||
| Untitled portrait of a young boy | Private collection in England | ||
| Untitled portrait of a young girl | Private collection in England | ||
| Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh | Unknown | ||
| E. W. Mackney | Unknown | ||
| Benvenuto Salviati | Unknown | ||
| Don Baltasar Torrecillas | Unknown | ||
| Henry Pettit | Unknown | ||
| Sir Thomas Sowler | Unknown | ||
| Lady Sowler | Unknown | ||
| Miss Mabel Sowler | Unknown | ||
| George Macfarren | Unknown | ||
| Julia Goodman | Unknown | ||
| Louise Keeley(Mrs. Montague Williams, Q.C.) | Unknown |
Dates specified are the earliest recorded date the work was displayed, or in some cases the year it was completed.
Books
Walter Goodman wrote these books:- Pearl of The Antilles or An Artist in Cuba, London: H.S.King & Co. 1873 (reprinted in 1986 as Un Artista en Cuba. Letras Cubanas (Col. Testimonio). La Habana.) Available here at gutenberg.org
- The Keeleys On Stage and At Home, London: Bentley and Son 1895
Other publications
Walter Goodman is known to have contributed to many books, periodicals, and publications. These have so far been identified:- A Cigarette Manufacturer At Havana, London Society (1872)
- General Tacon's Judgment, Daily Pacific Tribune (Vol. VII, No. 60, December 24, 1872)
- Sketches of Santiago, The GraphicThe GraphicThe Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited....
(1873) - Various sketches and stories, All The Year RoundAll the Year RoundAll the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom. Edited by Dickens, it was the direct successor to his previous publication Household Words, abandoned due to...
(1873) - Saved From a Wreck, Cassell's MagazineCassell's MagazineCassell's Magazine was the successor to Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper, which was published from 31 December 1853 to 9 March 1867, becoming Cassell's Family Magazine in 1874, Cassell's Magazine in 1897, and, after 1912, Cassell's Magazine of Fiction.The magazine was edited by H. G...
(1874) - Cuba Without a Master, Cassell's Magazine (1874)
- A Holiday in Cuba, Cassell's Magazine (1874)
- Tomasso Salvino (cover engraving), Pictorial World (1875)
- The Pictorial World (cover drawing The Language of the Face) (1876)
- The Russian Peasantry, Illustrated London NewsIllustrated London NewsThe Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper; the first issue appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842. It was published weekly until 1971 and then increasingly less frequently until publication ceased in 2003.-History:...
(28 April 1877) - A Little Baggage, Illustrated London NewsIllustrated London NewsThe Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper; the first issue appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842. It was published weekly until 1971 and then increasingly less frequently until publication ceased in 2003.-History:...
(Christmas Number, 1877) - God is taking care of me, Three Brown Boys and Other Happy Children — Ellen Haile (1879)
- Floy's first flight, The One Syllable Book — Emma E. Brown (1879)
- Mrs. Keeley at Fourscore (drawing) Pall Mall Gazette, July 29, 1885
- Obedient Bessie, Little Ramblers and Other Stories. By favorite American authors (Cassell) (1885)
- An English Ballet in Spain, The Theatre (1885)
- Art Behind the Curtain, The Theatre (1886)
- An Englishman on the Spanish Stage, The Theatre (1886)
- Box and Cox in Spanish, The Theatre (1886)
- Untitled drawing of children Cassell's Magazine (c. 1888)
- People I Have Painted, Sala's JournalGeorge Augustus Henry SalaGeorge Augustus Henry Sala , English journalist.-Biography:Sala was born in London; his father being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother an actress and teacher of singing...
(1893) - Artists Studios: As They Were and As They Are, Magazine of Art (1901)
- Julia Goodman (drawing), Jewish Chronicle, June 7, 1902
- Julia Goodman (drawing), Booklover's Magazine, February 1903
- Drapery Figures The Strand Magazine (1908)
- Romance of the Rubber, The Manchester Courier (date unknown)
External links
- Memorial Art Gallery
- Walker Art Gallery
- Royal Institute of Oil Painters
- Exhibition of Jewish art and antiquities
- A Cigarette Manufacturer From Havana
- Walter Goodman at Askart
- Walter Goodman at Artnet
- Walter Goodman at Artfact
- The Printseller's Window on Artfact
- The Printseller's Window
- The Garrick Club artist search
- Walter Goodman's entry in Find A Grave