The Mosque of the Citadel, Cairo
Artist
Albert Goodwin
(Maidstone, England, 1845 - 1932)
Date1909
Mediumink and body colour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 27 cm, Width: 37.1 cm
Frame: Height: 49.4 cm, Width: 58.6 cm
Frame: Height: 49.4 cm, Width: 58.6 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1909.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG002448
About MeDuring the early 1860s Albert Goodwin studied with Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown, who predicted that his pupil would become 'one of the greatest landscape painters of the age'. Hughes and Brown impressed on Goodwin the Pre-Raphaelite principles of high finish, vivid colour and working directly from nature. This informed his early landscape style, but later he successfully freed himself from these conventions, becming an artist of great freedom and atmosphere, to the point where he has since been described as the greatest follower of Turner. Travelling beyond Europe to the Middle East, India, the South Seas, Australia and the USA, he was the last of the great Victorian travelling artists.
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Godwin trained with proponents of Preraphaelitism, but eschewed their "rules" for greater freedom and atmosphere, becoming perhaps the greatest follower of Turner
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