Background
Good was born at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 4 December 1789, and spent most of his life there.
Good was born at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 4 December 1789, and spent most of his life there.
He was brought up as a house-painter, but in course of time began to execute portrait. From this he passed to genre painting, and between 1820 and 1834 exhibited at the principal London exhibitions. He stopped painting in the mid-1830s.
He died in his house on the Quay Walls of his native town, 15 April 1872.
Little is known of his life, but he visited London and David Wilkie, to whose school he belongs.