Davis Green (1880-1931)

Davis Green (1880–1931) was a keen collector of works by Albert Goodwin as well as Alfred East and other artists. Many pictures were hung at his home in Wolverhampton, but most of the present collection of Goodwins were kept in an album, never to see the light of day until this auction, so hence their remarkably fresh condition.

Davis Green was a successful businessman who, along with his brother Walford (former Conservative MP for Wednesbury 1895-1906), owned the engineering company Lockerbie and Wilkinson in Birmingham. Their most well known product was the penny in the door public toilet door lock that led to the phrase “spend a penny”.

The very successful business made it possible for him to indulge his passion for collecting art as well as furniture and rugs from the East.

Albert Goodwin (1845-1932)

Albert Goodwin (1845 -1932) was a British landscape painter best known for his watercolours. As a pupil of Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), and Arthur Hughes (1832 -1915), and a friend of John Ruskin (1819-1900), his works show the influence of both J.M.W Turner (1775-1851) and the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood.

In 1860, at just 15 years of age, Goodwin exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy. Aged 31, he became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 1876. As well as travelling around Europe with the art critic John Ruskin, Goodwin spent much of his career abroad including trips to India, the Middle East as well as to Canada with his nephew, the artist (Paul) Sidney Goodwin (1875-1944) in 1890.

Working well into his eighties, Goodwin was a prolific artist and produced over 800 paintings. The wide variety of landscapes that he produced reflect his love of landscape and travel. The style in which the artist worked clearly reflects his admiration for Turner by whom he was strongly influenced.

The group of works offered here includes a large cross section of landscapes from the UK, Europe, India and the Middle East , from northern scenes of Bambrough and Whitby, to the Southern coasts of Dorset and Somerset, along the Mediterranean coastlines of Monaco and Amalfi, Goodwin’s landscapes record an important insight into late Victorian social history.

The Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery have the largest public collection of Goodwin’s work.

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Wednesday 14 June | 10.30am BST
Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2JE

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