Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
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Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)

Night-Faithful unto Death

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Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
Night-Faithful unto Death
signed 'Albert Goodwin' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
21¾ x 31½ in. (55.4 x 80 cm.); and an ink and wash sketch for the finished watercolour, 7¾ x 9 3/8 in. (19.8 x 24 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 20 October 1981, lot 14.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-colour, 1892, no. 9, illustrated in catalogue.
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Lot Essay

The present watercolour was exhibited with the accompanying lines 'And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting over against the Sepulchre'...' We trusted it had been He which should have redeemed Israel'.

The sketch is also inscribed ''And there was Mary Magdalen &/the other Mary, over against the/Sepulchre.''

This extract is from Mathew chapter 27 verse 61 after Christ's body has come down from the cross and has been laid out in the tomb. Here we see the two Mary's standing before the stone that was rolled across the door of the sepulchre. Goodwin had deep religious beliefs. When his memoirs were privately published, two years after his death in 1934, they were a scattered collection of papers mostly concerned with his religious convictions, much of which was discarded in the published version.

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