Alfred E. Goodey
Alfred E. Goodey (d.1945) was a collector of paintings, prints and photographs, especially those connected with the English Midlands town of Derby. He began collecting oils, watercolours, prints and photographs in 1886, searching as far afield as America for anything to do with Derby. He even commissioned artists to paint contemporary views of Derby, anxious to record anything that might be demolished or changed. [1]
Goodey amassed a remarkable record of Derby as it existed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in 1936 he gave 500 paintings to the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.[2] He also bequeathed to the town further works of art and a sum of money to be used to build an extension to the Museum, which now houses the biggest collection of hugely important paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby. Goodey's collection included paintings by Alfred John Keene, a member of the Keene family of Derby which included his father and photographer Richard Keene who published the Derby Telegraph, and his brother William Caxton Keene. Three of the paintings given to the Derby Museum and Art Gallery by Goodey were by artist Ernest Ellis Clark. Another was by C.T Moore. [3] Images of his collection have been published by Derby City Council in the book 'Goodey's Derby'
See also
- [1] Derbyshire artists