Robert Goodman was born in Taplow in Buckinghamshire in 1871. He moved with his family to the Cape in 1886 where he attended lessons with <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/james-smith-morland">JS Morland</a>, the first president of the South African Society of Artists. With Morland's financial help, the young Goodman continued his training at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1895, before