Frederick Goodall Auction Prices and Value Guide

Frederick Goodall auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 866 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Frederick Goodall auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Frederick Goodall
Source records
866
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Frederick Goodall

Frederick Goodall (1822–1904) was a British painter celebrated for his Orientalist scenes of Egyptian and Near Eastern life, as well as landscapes, portraits, and genre subjects. Born in London to the engraver Edward Goodall, he trained as a painter and achieved early recognition in Britain. Goodall traveled widely across Europe and North Africa, spending formative time in the Crimea in 1854 and living in Cairo for five months in 1858 alongside fellow artist Carl Haag. His extended travels through Morocco, Spain, Portugal, and Italy informed a body of work that combined academic technique with vivid depictions of Bedouin encampments, desert landscapes, and biblical narratives. His paintings were exhibited at major London institutions, and works by Goodall are held in public collections including the Tate. Collectors today most frequently encounter his oils at auction under Victorian, British, and Orientalist categories.

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Common works and media

Goodall worked primarily in oil on canvas, producing large exhibition pieces as well as smaller cabinet paintings. Common subjects include Egyptian and desert landscapes, Bedouin encampments, biblical and Christian religious scenes, peasant genre interiors, rural English landscapes, and portraits. Orientalist compositions with figures, animals, and architectural settings are the most frequently encountered type at auction. Watercolors and drawings also appear, though less commonly than oils.

Market and appraisal context

Frederick Goodall maintains an active and well-documented secondary market with 182 recorded auction lots (114 with published prices) spanning 1995 through February 2026. His work trades regularly at both major and regional auction houses, with Christie's and Sotheby's handling top-tier material and firms such as Dreweatts, Roseberys, John Nicholson's, Bonhams, and A.B. Levy's providing consistent mid-market liquidity. Realized prices are widely dispersed: the interquartile range runs from approximately £600 to £4,900, with a median near £1,600, while exceptional Orientalist exhibition pieces have exceeded £100,000 at Sotheby's. The market shows stable volume—11 priced lots in the most recent 12 months versus 10 in the prior period—suggesting steady collector demand rather than speculative spikes. Orientalist Egyptian subjects (desert landscapes, Bedouin encampments, Nile scenes, biblical narratives in Near Eastern settings) consistently command the strongest prices. Portraits of notable figures and large-scale genre compositions also perform well, while smaller watercolors, peasant genre scenes, and studio variants trade at lower tiers. The breadth of auction-house representation across the UK, continental Europe, and the US indicates geographically diverse buyer interest.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • 19th Century British Paintings
  • Orientalist Art
  • Victorian Paintings
  • Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
  • Works on Paper

Value drivers

  1. Subject matter: Orientalist Egyptian scenes tend to attract stronger demand than domestic genre works
  2. Provenance and exhibition history can significantly affect value
  3. Large-scale exhibition pieces generally command higher prices than smaller cabinet works
  4. Condition, attribution confidence, and medium (oil on canvas vs. watercolor) are key differentiators
  5. Subject matter: Orientalist Egyptian and Near Eastern scenes (desert landscapes, Bedouin subjects, biblical narratives) attract the strongest demand; domestic genre and peasant scenes trade at lower tiers
  6. Scale: large exhibition-scale oils command significantly higher prices than cabinet paintings or small works on board

Appraisal caveats

  • With 866 recorded auction appearances, Goodall is a well-represented artist at auction, but prices vary widely by size, subject, and condition.
  • No single catalogue raisonné is referenced in the collected sources; attribution should be confirmed against published scholarship.
  • The Appraisily auction-record index shows 182 lots, but the broader market may include additional results not captured in this dataset; this represents a substantial but not exhaustive record.
  • With 866 historically recorded auction appearances noted in the existing profile versus 182 lots in the current index, the dataset likely reflects a subset weighted toward recent decades and Invaluable-sourced results.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

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Artist value FAQ

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