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The End of the Pilgrim's Road

Albert Goodwin (1845-1932)



Price
£125,000

Signed
Signed, inscribed 'The river, for he shall give his angels charge over thee', and dated 1902
Inscribed with title and artist's address on label on reverse

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
42 ½ x 56 ½ inches

Provenance
Matthew Biggar Walker Esq, of Wolverhampton;
Christie's, London, 9 March 1928, Lot 92 (7 Gns 7 Shillings to J Ward). Anonymous Sale;
Christie's, London, 5 March 1971, Lot 63

Exhibited
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 1902, no 405;
'An Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Water Colour Drawings, etc. by Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., R.W.A. loaned by M.B.Walker Esq', Municipal Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton, December 1925, no 39;
'A collection of oil paintings, water colour drawings etc.
By Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., R.W.A. Lent by M.B. Walker Esq', City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1926, no 122;
'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 60

The inscription is taken from Psalm 91, verse xi

‘Now I further saw that between them and the gate was a river; but there was no bridge to go over and the river was very deep. At the sight, therefore, of this river, the Pilgrims were much stunned, but the men that went with them said ‘you must go through or you cannot come to the gate’’

(
Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress) [quoted in the exhibition catalogue at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, December 1925]


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