Robert Gwelo Goodman - Artist Info

About Robert Gwelo Goodman

  • Biography

    Robert Gwelo Goodman: Born 1871 (Taplow, United Kingdom); Died 1939

    Art Education:
    Robert Goodman studied evening classes under JS Morland, Cape Town.
    1895 Académie Julian, Paris, under Bougureau, Constant Bachet and Gabriel Ferrier (Matisse was a fellow-student).

    Biography:
    The son of a British Railways employee.

    1886 Robert Goodman came to South Africa with his parents.

    1888 Became a railway-clerk, first in Paarl, later in Newlands. Robert Goodman began to attend art-classes; much encouraged by Morland.

    1895 With an allowance of R80 per year from his father (out of his modest income as station-master at Wynberg, Cape Province), supported by a guarantee of R120 per year from the similarly needy M...

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