Goodall, FREDERICK

Goodall, FREDERICK, an English artist, the son of Edward Goodall (1795-1870), an engraver, who early encouraged his son's artistic talents, was born in London, September 17, 1822. He was only seventeen years of age when he exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy, 'French Soldiers playing Cards in a Cabaret.' 'The Return from a Christening,' which received a prize of £50 from the British Institution, 'Tired Soldier' (1842), 'Village Festival' (1847), 'Hunt the Slipper' (1849), 'Raising the Maypole' (1851), and 'Cramer at the Traitors' Gate' (1856) are amongst the best of his early pictures. A visit to Venice and Egypt in 1857-59 led him to turn his attention to Italian and oriental subjects, such as 'Reciting Tasso' (1859), 'Song of the Nubian Slave' (1864), 'Rising of the Nile' (1865), 'Mater Dolorosa' (1868), 'Sheep-washing near the Pyramids of Gizeh' (1876), 'Daughters of Laban' (1878), 'Return from Mecca' (1881), 'Flight into Egypt' (1885), and numerous others. Goodall was elected a Royal Academician in 1863.