Post 206 - by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
Edward Angelo Goodall (1819-1908) was a member of the Goodall family of artists. He was an English landscape and orientalist painter. He was the eldest son of Edward Goodall, who was an engraver of JMW Turner’s works. It is said that many great artists of the Victorian period frequented their house, especially Turner and Clarkson Stanfield.
Goodall began his career by documenting natural assets of the British Guiana. They collected natural history specimens for the Royal Museum and the Botanical Gardens in Berlin.
Goodall travelled and painted in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Gibraltar, and Venice. This exposed him to both, people and places, beyond British isles. His interest in landscape, architecture and monuments rather than purely genre subjects perhaps manifested here.
His oil paint works seemingly exotic due to over emphatic use of contrasts in browns. But his water colour art is extremely minimal as much as sober. His water-colour paintings reflect some of the JMW Turner techniques but not the style.
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