Walter Goodman

Who was Walter Goodman?

Walter Goodman was an English painter, illustrator and author.

The son of English portrait painter Julia Salaman and London linen draper and town councillor, Louis Goodman, he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy in London, where he was admitted as a student in 1851. Recent research has unearthed details of nearly one hundred works by Goodman. Unfortunately the present whereabouts of most these are unknown, notable exceptions being The Printseller's Window, acquired by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in 1998, portraits of actresses Mary Anne Keeley and Fanny Stirling, both in the collection of London's Garrick Club, A Kitchen Cabinet in a private collection in USA, and a Cuban scene, Home of the Bamboo, in a private collection in Sweden. Several sketches, paintings and water colours, are still in the possession of Walter Goodman's descendants.