Frederick Goodall, RA (British, 1822-1904) The little goatherd signed with monogram and dated '1878' (lower right) oil on panel 56 x 45cm (22 1/16 x 17 11/16in). Footnotes: Frederick Goodall was born in St John's Wood in September 1822, the second son of Edward Goodall, a renowned steel engraver. One of six brothers and four sisters, he attended The Wellington Road Academy, a private school where Charles Dickens had been a pupil. Two of Frederick's brothers, Edward Angelo and Walter, became well known artists and among the regular visitors to the Goodall household were John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Roberts. Encouraged to draw from an early age, Goodall's first commission came as a result of a chance meeting with Isambard Kingdom Brunel who he met when he was sixteen. The resulting watercolours, showing the building of the Thames Tunnel in Rotherhithe, were the first works that Goodall exhibited at the Royal Academy. Subsequent visits, initially to France, and then to Ireland, inspired rustic and romantic scenes, which made up the main body of his work in the 1840s and early 1850s. In 1852, Goodall was elected associate member of the Royal Academy and began to paint historical scenes inspired by episodes from the Civil War. However, it was his trips to Egypt that inspired a significant change in Goodall's oeuvre. He first visited in 1858, equipped with letters of introduction from the already popular David Roberts. There, he met fellow artist Carl Haag and the two travelled and camped with Bedouins in order to collect realistic sketches of Egyptian daily life. They made trips from Giza to Suez, capturing pyramids, sunsets, and souks, collecting robes, mashrabiyyah and other Egyptian artifacts to include in their paintings. Goodall made his second trip in 1870. Over the course of forty-six years, Goodall dedicated one hundred and seventy paintings to the theme of Egypt. His work became increasingly popular and by 1860, he was earning an enormous sum of ten thousand pounds per year. Goodall continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1902, two years before his death. A lavish lifestyle, including commissioning Norman Shaw to build him a house in Harrow, led to his fortune dwindling and he was declared bankrupt by the time of his death in 1904. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com