Julia Goodman
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The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman (b.1789) and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1836 she married London
London
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linen draper
Draper
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, Louis Goodman (1811-1876).
Julia Goodman began her painting career by copying old master
Old Master
"Old Master" is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print made by an artist in the same period...
s and her works were much in demand. In 1838 she began exhibiting her original portraits at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
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. One of her earliest original works was a portrait of Mr. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was an English humorist.He was born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket...
. Other sitters included the Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC , styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.-Background:...
(who founded the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
), Sir George A. MacFarren
George Alexander Macfarren
Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...
, Sir John Erichsen
John Eric Erichsen
Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon, born in Copenhagen, was the son of Eric Erichsen, a member of a well-known Danish banking family....
, Lady Martins, the Hon. Mrs. Le Poer Tench, Countess Waldegrave
Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave
Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave was a British philanthropist.Sarah Whitear was born in 1787, the daughter of Rev. William Whitear, a prebendary of Chichester, at Hastings Old Town Rectory. She later married Edward Milward, who later served as Mayor of Hastings several times and she inherited...
, Sir Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor (dramatist)
Sir Henry Taylor was an English dramatist.Taylor was born in Bishop Middleham, the son of a gentleman farmer, and spent his youth in Witton-le-Wear with his stepmother at Witton Hall in the high street...
, Joaquin Cuadras
Joaquin Cuadras
Joaquín Cuadras was a Cuban painter.In 1861 Cuadras met fellow artist Walter Goodman whilst copying Old Master paintings at the Uffizi palace in Florence and the two became friends. They travelled to Barcelona in 1862 and arrived in London a year later.In 1864 he sat for Walter Goodman's mother,...
(shown at the Exhibition of the Society of Female Artists in London
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in 1864), Colonel Thorpe of Guernsey, Colonel Thurburn, Charles Bertram, Miss Fanny Corbaux, Miss Kate Rorke, Dr. Van Oven, Dr. Francis Goldsmid, Henry Lemon, Rev. Dr. Lowy, Rev. Professor Marks, various members of the Mocatta family, Sir John Simon, and Charles Kensington Salaman
Charles Kensington Salaman
Charles Kensington Salaman was a British pianist and composer.Salaman was born and died in London. His music teachers included Charles Neate and William Crotch, and he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music at the age of ten. He studied in Paris under Henri Herz, and returned to London in...
. Other notable works that are documented are Abraham Soloman Esq. (Liverpool Society of Fine Arts, 1859), Sir F.L Goldsmid, Bart. (Liverpool Society of Fine Arts, 1861), The Belle of the Ball (Liverpool Society of Fine Arts, 1862), T. Solamon Esq. (Liverpool Institute of Fine Arts, 1863), and Flora (Liverpool Institute of Fine Arts, 1865).
The paintings Goodman exhibited at The Royal Academy are G.A.Beckett Esq. (1838), Miss Rosa Goodman (1841), Miss Minna Goodman (1842), Miss Fanny Corbaux (1844), B. Van Oven Esq. M.P.(1857), The Earl of Westmorland (1858), and Alice (1863).
The portraits of George MacFarren and The Earl of Westmorland are in the collection of The Royal Academy of Music.
She is also known to have painted many other portraits of her family. Her final portrait was that of the Rev. Isidore Harris, which she painted at the age of 90. Julia Goodman herself estimated that she had painted more than one thousand portraits.
Julia Goodman had seven children Edward(1836), Walter
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.The son of British 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...
(1838), Constance(1841), Arthur(1842), Robert(1845), Alice(1848), and Miriam(1850).
Miriam was a well-known pianist of her day and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
. Edward, a playwright and author of many novels and travel books, was on the editorial staff of The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
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for almost forty years and was the chairman of the Savage Club
Savage Club
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committee. Walter
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.The son of British 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...
was the acclaimed painter, illustrator and author.
She died on New Year's Eve 1906 and is buried at Golders Green
Golders Green
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Cemetery in London
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Julia Goodman's great-great-granddaughter and namesake is the actress Julia Goodman.
