Edmund Gouldsmith

Edmund Thomas Gouldsmith (10 July 1852 – 10 August 1932) was an English painter, noted for landscapes and marine studies, who spent three years in Adelaide, South Australia and three years in Christchurch, New Zealand.

History Gouldsmith was born in Chatham, Bristol according to one reference Clifton, Bristol according to a contemporary report, Bristol, and studied at the Bristol Government School of Art and the Royal College of Art He arrived in Adelaide in 1883, and established a studio in rooms above E. S. Wigg & Son's stationery premises with the desirable feature of north-facing windows, but austere and with no pleasing outlook. of which no trace has been found. In 1886, he left for New Zealand, where he served as part-time art master at Christ's College, Christchurch and exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts 1887–1888 before returning to Britain, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891 to 1927.

The Art Gallery of South Australia commissioned several paintings from him, one of the River Onkaparinga at Echunga and one of ships and hulks at the Port River, The Christchurch Art Gallery once held his Seacoast.

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