Goodhart - Self-Portrait

Signed in pencil below the image. Joseph Goodhart was a painter, pastellist, and etcher. He had no formal training as an artist but was a draper by trade. He worked in oils, watercolours and pastels until he was 50 when he took up etching, resulting from a meeting with the artist and etcher John Goodchild. Goodhart set up his first press within his fitting shop in Broken Hill. A large number of his works depict mining life around Broken Hill, New South Wales, between the 1920s and early 1930s. He is also known for a series of prints recording historical landmarks of Tasmania. Some very light foxing in margins.