Thomas Sword Good

Thomas Sword Good (1789–1872) was a British painter, known for genre works.

Life

Good was born at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 4 December 1789, and spent most of his life there. He was brought up as a house-painter, but in course of time began to execute portrait. From this he passed to genre painting, and between 1820 and 1834 exhibited at the principal London exhibitions. He stopped painting in the mid-1830s.

He died in his house at 20 Quay Walls of his native town, 15 April 1872.

Little is known of his life, but he visited London and David Wilkie, to whose school of painting his works belong.

Works

To the

, making a total of sixty-four works up to 1834.

Two works ('No News' and 'Study of a Boy') were bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1874 by the painter's widow, Mary Evans Good, to whom he had been married in 1839. There are also several examples of Good's art in the

. Good's works were collected by J. W. Barnes of Durham: oils, water-colours, drawings, and etchings, including a self-portrait of the artist by himself.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Good, Thomas Sword". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.