Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) was a Royal Academician whose career was successful until near the end of his long life when he became bankrupt.

Goodall's Wikipedia entry is here. A web site devoted to his family includes this biographical information.

Although he painted a variety of subjects, Goodall is best considered an Orientalist, one of a group of (mostly) European 19th century artists who traveled North Africa and the Near East, painting scenes of the exotic for their pre-television / pre-internet audiences.

To put it another way, Orientalist painters were reporters of a kind. That, combined with their typically academic training, accounts for that fact that most Orientalist paintings (regardless of artist) are hard-edged and detail-filled.

Gallery

[Image]A Dream of Paradise
Many Orientalists needed little excuse of paint exotic beauties, clothed or (so much the better) partly so. The lady pictured here appears to be a fair-skinned Greek in what logically would be a Turkish setting, but more likely she was an Englishwoman.

[Image]Bazaar in Cairo - 1891

[Image]Leaving the Village
Presumably during the annual rise of the Nile in Egypt.

[Image]The Light of the Sun Upon the Pyramids of Giza

[Image]The Song of the Nubian Slave - 1863
The color work is nice on this, one of Goodall's better Orientalist paintings.

[Image]The Finding of Moses
Not strictly Orientalist, but informed by Goodall's travels in Egypt.

[Image]Mrs Charles Kettlewell in Neo-classical Dress - 1890
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a master of painting marble and Northern Europeans in Classical scenes. Goodall was not so good at this.

[Image]High Society Couple - 1861
Now for some examples of Goodall's non-Orientalist work.

[Image]Raising the Maypole - 1855

[Image]The Artist's Wife, Alice Tarry - 1873
She was his second wife.

[Image]Rebecca at the Well
A Biblical scene with an Englishwoman posing -- an offshoot of Orientalism.