Walter Goodall

Walter Goodall (6 November 1830 – 14 May 1889) was an English watercolour painter.

Goodall typically painted small figure subject-pictures, such as The Daydream, The Cradle Song, Waiting for the Ferry-boat, and The Tired Lace-maker. Many showed scenes of cottage life with women and young girls. A number of these were lithographed in a series entitled Walter Goodall's Rustic Sketches in 1855-57. Goodall also made drawings from pictures in the Vernon Gallery for engravings published in The Art Journal,

He visited Italy in 1868-69, and perhaps again, seeing Rome and Venice.

About fourteen years before his death Goodall had a paralytic seizure, from which he never quite recovered, and during the last few years of his life was unable to practise his art. He died on 14 May 1889, in his fifty-ninth year, leaving a widow and three children, and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery .

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