Goodman Teale

Also known as G. Teale
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
The sketcher's 1855 coloured engraving shows an elevated view of Melbourne looking down the Yarra River. The Melbourne Punch satirised it: 'An artist with a lively imagination and a large stock of green paint on his hands, has issued a lovely sketch of a Utopian city'.
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Name
Goodman Teale
Also known as G. Teale
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • Merchant (ANZSIC code: G)
Death date
25 July 1885
Death place
Kyneton, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1854 - c.1885
Residence
  • Melbourne, Vic.
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Other occupations
  • Merchant (ANZSIC code: G)
  • Merchant (ANZSIC code: G)
Alternative names
  • G. Teale
  • G. Teale
Related people
  • Whitlock, N. (associate of)
  • Teale, Emma (spouse of)
  • Whitlock, N. (associate of)
  • Teale, Emma (spouse of)
Related works
  • City of Melbourne, Australia (creator of)
  • City of Melbourne, Australia (creator of)
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Biography sketcher and merchant, is said to have provided sketches of Melbourne in 1854 from which, with the assistance of official surveys, N. Whitlock in London produced a coloured engraving, _City of Melbourne, Australia_ , published on 1 May 1855. An elevated view of Melbourne looking down the Yarra River, the print shows the layout of the streets and the principal buildings in the town. _Melbourne Punch_ devoted some space to satirising it: 'An artist with a lively imagination and a large stock of green paint on his hands, has issued a lovely sketch of a Utopian city ... This city he designates as Melbourne'.


The sketcher, acknowledged as G. Teale on the engraving, was presumably Goodman Teale, a merchant of 105 William Street, Melbourne. He exhibited an oil painting of Borrowdale in the Lake District by the British painter S.J.E. Jones and four Welsh oil landscapes by Jones and Woodley Brown at the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition but none of his own drawings are otherwise recorded. Goodman Teale died at Kyneton, Victoria, on 25 July 1885, survived by his wife Emma.


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