Goodall

Goodall, Frederick, a well-known English painter, was born in London in the year 1822, his father being an engraver. He exhibited when only seventeen at the Royal Academy. In 1847 his Village Holiday, now in the National Gallery, was seen, and was followed in 1851 by Raisiny the Maypole. Two years later he was elected A.R.A., and in 1855 and the following year he exhibited two historical paintings of merit. He went to Egypt in 1857, and henceforth most of his subjects were Oriental. He became R.A. in 1863.