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

A sunset in the manufacturing districts

Details

Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
A sunset in the manufacturing districts
signed and dated 'Albert Goodwin/83' (lower left) and inscribed 'TO LET/THE HOLE/OF/THIS PLACE' (centre left, on a building) and further signed and inscribed '5 A sunset in The manufacturing districts/"The Heavens even the Heavens are the Lords/but the Earth hath he given to the children of Men"/£/Albert Goodwin./7 Montpelier Ilfracombe' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
22½ x 31 in. (57.2 x 78.8 cm.)
In the original Foord and Dickinson frame.

Provenance

By descent from the artist to the present owner, the artist's grandson.

Exhibited

London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colour, Summer Exhibition, 1884, no. 62.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Cleveland, Museum of Art, Birmingham, Museum & Art Gallery, Victorian Landscape Watercolours, September-April 1992-1993, no. 99.

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Lot Essay

Reporting on the 1884 exhibition, the Spectator's critic wrote that 'Mr. Goodwin has nearly everything which Mr. [George Arthur] Fripp lacks.- daring, originality, imagination, poetry, and keenest sense of beauty of colour' (Spectator, London, 10 May 1884, p. 615).

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