THOMAS FREDERICK GOODALL (BRITISH, 1856-1944).
Description
East Anglian Landscape with Lady Farm Worker before a Mill
signed (lower left), oil on canvas
113 x 151cm (44.5in x 59.5in)
Footnote: Peter Henry Emerson trained in medicine, qualifying at Cambridge in 1885, but turned to writing and photography after election to the Council of the Photographic Society. Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, a collaboration with the painter Thomas Frederick Goodall, launched a series of photographically-illustrated books about the East Anglian landscape and its peoples that he published over the next decade. Goodall was a member of the New English Art Club, a break-away from the Royal Academy of Arts, and his dedication to modern French-style open-air painting led him to convert a traditional East Anglian houseboat into a floating studio. The photographs in Life and Landscape were correspondingly ‘taken directly from nature’, and printed on platinum-containing paper that allowed a wide tonal range.
By the late nineteenth century the railway had opened the Broads to visitors, like Emerson and Goodall themselves; Goodall married an East Anglian. However, the Broads’ popularity as a ‘boating playground was still in its infancy. Wherries – tall-sailed boats introduced in the early seventeenth-century – were still key forms of transport, and Emerson and Goodall document the work of the area with close attention to its traditional nomenclature and practices.Show more
Condition
Relined canvas with patches of over painting visible under UV inspection, generally ok.
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Description
East Anglian Landscape with Lady Farm Worker before a Mill
signed (lower left), oil on canvas
113 x 151cm (44.5in x 59.5in)
Footnote: Peter Henry Emerson trained in medicine, qualifying at Cambridge in 1885, but turned to writing and photography after election to the Council of the Photographic Society. Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, a collaboration with the painter Thomas Frederick Goodall, launched a series of photographically-illustrated books about the East Anglian landscape and its peoples that he published over the next decade. Goodall was a member of the New English Art Club, a break-away from the Royal Academy of Arts, and his dedication to modern French-style open-air painting led him to convert a traditional East Anglian houseboat into a floating studio. The photographs in Life and Landscape were correspondingly ‘taken directly from nature’, and printed on platinum-containing paper that allowed a wide tonal range.
By the late nineteenth century the railway had opened the Broads to visitors, like Emerson and Goodall themselves; Goodall married an East Anglian. However, the Broads’ popularity as a ‘boating playground was still in its infancy. Wherries – tall-sailed boats introduced in the early seventeenth-century – were still key forms of transport, and Emerson and Goodall document the work of the area with close attention to its traditional nomenclature and practices.Show more
Condition
Relined canvas with patches of over painting visible under UV inspection, generally ok.
