Background
He was born at Leeds on 17 September 1795, and was entirely self-taught.
He was born at Leeds on 17 September 1795, and was entirely self-taught.
He is now best known for his plates after J. M. West. Turner. From the age of sixteen he practised both engraving and painting. One of his pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822 or 1823 attracted the attention of Turner, and he became a landscape engraver.
Goodall died at Hampstead Road, London, on 11 April 1870.
Goodall left three sons, Frederick Goodall, Edward Angelo Goodall, and Walter Goodall, all members of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours.