Thomas Frederick Goodall  (1856 - 1944) was born at Anerley, Surrey on 28 September 1856. Thomas was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, joining as a 'probationer' in July 1873 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1879. Thomas studied at City and Guilds of London Art School, under John Sparkes (1833-1907). In 1881, Thomas was using the name 'T. F. Goodall', perhaps so as not to be confused with a contemporary artist, Frederick Goodall, R.A. He collaborated with photographer Peter Henry Emmerson (1856-1936) in the publication of 'Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads' (London 1886) and exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Dudley Gallery; Grosvenor Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; New English Art Club; Royal Society of British Artists and the New Gallery. In 1911, he was living on the ‘Dulce Domum’, a yacht on Oulton Broad, Suffolk with his wife Nancy. In 1939, an artist landscape painter living at Drinkwater, Park Lane, Chelmsford, Essex where Nancy died in 1942, aged 83. Thomas Frederick Goodall died at Winterhaven, Park Lane, Ramsden Heath, Billericay, Essex on 8 August 1944, aged 87.