Frederick Goulding

[1] In 1854 Frederick Goulding was sent to a day school conducted at the National Hall, Holborn, by William Lovett, a well-known Chartist.

In 1857 he was apprenticed to Messrs. Day & Son, 6 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, originally a firm of lithographic printers, but then concerned largely with the printing of engravings, to which branch of their business Goulding was attached.

In 1881 he felt justified in embarking upon a printing business of his own, and built a studio, largely extended later, in the garden at the back of Kingston House.

Among artists whose etchings he printed were Frank Short, William Strang, Joseph Pennell, Auguste Rodin, Charles Holroyd, Paul Adolphe Rajon and Robert Walker Macbeth; in fact few etchers or engravers did not claim Goulding's assistance.

He combined with remarkable dexterity of workmanship a singular understanding of each artist's aim, and so played no small part in the revival of etching in the nineteenth century.