Goff, Colonel Robert Charles

Florence's riverbanks, markets and church interiors take centre stage in prints by Colonel Robert Charles Goff, painter and ...

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Florence's riverbanks, markets and church interiors take centre stage in prints by Colonel Robert Charles Goff, painter and etcher. Goff (1837–1922) turned to art after a military career, and these plates reproduce his paintings for Florence and Some Tuscan Cities, published in 1905 with text by his wife Clarissa. They follow the Arno past the Ponte Vecchio and Borgo San Jacopo, enter the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella and record markets and processions as well as monuments, including the Mercato Vecchio before its demolition. Fiesole, Pisa and Prato lie further afield, and spring gardens, cypress avenues, storms over the valley and evening light on the river show him as a landscape painter too.

Florence's riverbanks, markets and church interiors take centre stage in prints by Colonel Robert Charles Goff, painter and etcher. Goff (1837–1922) turned to art after a military career, and these plates reproduce his paintings for Florence and Some Tuscan Cities, published in 1905 with text by his wife Clarissa. They follow the Arno past the Ponte Vecchio and Borgo San Jacopo, enter the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella and record markets and processions as well as monuments, including the Mercato Vecchio before its demolition. Fiesole, Pisa and Prato lie further afield, and spring gardens, cypress avenues, storms over the valley and evening light on the river show him as a landscape painter too.

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