Albert Goodwin, R.W.S.

Probably purchased in 1864 by James Leathart of Newcastle (advised by Ford Madox Brown);
Peter Nahum, London, July 2004

The sheet does not appear to be laid down. Very faint signs of foxing to the sky; otherwise appears in good frame overall condition. Held in carved wooden and gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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Painted by Goodwin in the same year as Boyce's Newcastle from the Rabbit Banks (lot 125) this watercolour demonstrates the similarity of the two artists' work at this time. It was the result of another intervention by Ford Madox Brown (see also lots 125 and 127), who wrote to his patron James Leathart of Newcastle in the summer of 1864 suggesting he purchased a series of watercolours of Jersey by Goodwin: 'My pupil Mr. Goodwin has recently returned from Jersey with a very admirable set of drawings – As I promised him to send them to you for inspection and also you may remember promised you to do so, I take it upon me without further leave to have them placed in the case along with ‘Oure Ladye’ for although, as you say, you are not at present prepared for extensive purchase, yet these drawings, all who have seen them think so very beautiful that I cannot help thinking you will retain some of them. Considering how fine most of them are and the extreme youth of the artist (only 19) I think there can be no doubt of his becoming before long one of the greatest landscape painters of the age... Should you buy any or even all (for it is a very cheap list) we should feel obliged by your sending back the whole of them in a week - for as yet scarce any one has seen them and no doubt they will do him much good by being shown … (Letter held in the Library of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, dated 18 July 1864).