Stephen Gooden
Stephen Frederick Gooden CBE, RA, RE (born Tulse Hill, London, 9 October 1892, died Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, 21 September 1955) was an English artist, engraver, illustrator and designer of banknotes. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1933 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1946. He was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours.
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- Name
- Stephen Gooden
- Born
- 9 October 1892
- Birthplace
- Tulse Hill, London, England
- Died
- 21 September 1955
- Place of death
- Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England
- Education
- Rugby School, Slade School of Fine Art
- Occupation
- Artist and engraver
- Spouse
- Mona Steele Price
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
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Stephen Frederick Gooden CBE, RA, RE (born Tulse Hill, London, 9 October 1892, died Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, 21 September 1955) was an English artist, engraver, illustrator and designer of banknotes. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1933 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1946. He was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours.
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Biography
Stephen Gooden studied at Slade School of Fine Art. The recorded working language is English. Work by Stephen Gooden is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Print Collection and Huis van het boek.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Stephen Gooden • Born — 9 October 1892 • Birthplace — Tulse Hill, London, England • Died — 21 September 1955 • Place of death — Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England • Education — Rugby School, Slade School of Fine Art • Occupation — Artist and engraver • Spouse — Mona Steele Price
Early life
Early life
Gooden was the son of a picture dealer, Stephen Thomas Gooden (1856–1909), who joined Frederick W. Fox to create the company Gooden and Fox. S. F. Gooden was educated at Rugby School and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1909 to 1913. He served in the Royal Engineers during World War I.
Work
Work
Gooden was best known as an engraver, mostly on copper. His designs have been described as finely engraved, witty and inventive. He was associated with the Nonesuch Press in its early years for which he provided decorations and title pages, and he illustrated fine editions of the King James Bible (1924) and the odes of Anacreon (1923). He designed banknotes for the Bank of England, but only one was issued, and for several other countries. He also designed and engraved many pictorial and armorial bookplates including designs for Princess Elizabeth, Stephen Courtauld and several others. Gooden's design of St George and the dragon on the bookplate for the Royal Library at Windsor Castle was used as the basis for the design of the reverse of the George Medal, for which he was awarded the CBE. Gooden's work can be found in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
Personal life
Personal life
In 1925 he married the Irish poet Mona Steele Price (1894–1958) for whom he illustrated an anthology of poems that she selected about cats. They had no children.
Identity
Identity
Stephen Gooden is recorded as engraver, illustrator, designer, printmaker and exlibrist.
Origins and formation
Origins and formation
Stephen Gooden is recorded as having studied at Slade School of Fine Art. Born in 1892 at Tulse Hill.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1892
Stephen Gooden born at Tulse Hill.
1955
Stephen Gooden died at Chesham Bois.
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Literature
Literature
Gooden, Stephen, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Gooden, Stephen, (1892–21 Sept
Gooden, Stephen Frederick (1892–1955), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017
Gooden, Stephen Frederick, Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online
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- 1.Hopkinson, M. (1999). No day without a line. The History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 1880–1999. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum.
- 2.Stephen Gooden | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts. royalacademy.org.uk.
- 3.Peppin, B. & Micklethwait, L. (1983). Dictionary of British Book Illustrators. The Twentieth Century. London: John Murray.
- 4.Horne, A. (1994). The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors’ Club.
- 5.Withdrawn banknotes. Bank of England.
- 6.Gooden, M. (1946). The Poet's Cat. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Campbell Dodgson (1944). An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden. London: Elkin Matthews.
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