Albert Goodwin (
1845-1932) was a
British landscape painter, specialising in watercolours. Goodwin was a prolific artist, producing over 800 works and continuing to paint well into his eighties. His work shows the influences of
Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Goodwin was born in Maidstone in Kent, the son of a builder and one of 9 children. After leaving school he became an apprentice draper. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the Pre-Raphaelite artists
Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown - the latter predicting that he would become "
one of the greatest landscape painters of the age".