Live Auction 8020Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
Lot 53

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

A sunset in the manufacturing districts

Closed15 December 2011

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GBP 5,625

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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.

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

Specialist note

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).