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GOOD'ALL. A family of English artists. En WARD (1795-1870) was a line-engraver chiefly known through his engravings of Turner's works, which he executed with great delicacy and beauty, and those of his son and pupil, FREDERICK ( 1822—) , a genre painter in oil and water-color, born in London. His first oil painting was entitled "Finding the Dead Body of a Miner by Torch light," for which the Society of Arts awarded him the silver medal. During the summers of 1838-42, he visited Normandy and Brittany, and in 1839, when but seventeen years of age, he exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy, "French Soldiers Playing Cards in a Cabaret." His "Entering Church," as well as "The Return from a Christening," which received a prize of £50 from the British Institution, and others of his early pictures, were purchased by Mr. Wells. "The Tired Soldier," exhibited in 1842, was pur chased by Mr. Vernon, and is now in the Vernon Gallery. Some of his French scenes are "Veteran of the Old Guard Describing his Battles;" "La Fête du Mariage" (The Marriage Feast) ; "The Wounded Soldier Returned to His Family;" "The Conscript." In 1844 he went for subjects to Ire land, and subsequently visited North Wales. His "Village Festival" exhibited in 1847, now in the National Gallery, "Raising the Maypole" (1851), and "Cranmer at the Traitor's Gate" (1856) are among the best of his English subjects. In 1853

he was elected associate, and in 1863 member of the Royal Academy. In 1857-59 he visited Venice and Egypt, and afterwards painted many Italian and Oriental subjects, including "Reciting Tas so" (1859), "Rising of the Nile" (1865), and "Flight into Egypt" (1885). Among his latest works arc "Leading the Flock" (1894), and the "Thames from Windsor Castle"(1890).—HOWARD Goonkm, (1830-89), a younger brother of Fred erick. He was a painter in water-color, and be came member of the Water-Color Society in 1862.

His pictures were usually small subjects. He ex hibited the "Lottery Ticket" at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876, and published a series of Rustic Sketches.—FEEDERICK TEEVELYAN GOODALL (1848-71), son of Frederick Goodall, won the gold medal of the Royal Academy in 1869 with his "Return of Ulysses," but lost his life through an accident at Capri, on the threshold of a success ful careen—ID:1watt') GOODALL (1850-74), young est son of Frederick, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870 and 1873.