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 JS Morland, 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 basing himself in London in 1897. He travelled frequently during th