Arthur Trevethin Nowell  RI   RP   1862 - 1940

 

'Truth's Mirror'

From the Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery ©

 

 

1862 Born Garndiffaith Trevethin Wales           

1873 Bury Grammar School

1878 Manchester School of Art, Gold Medal and other awards

1882 St John's Wood School,  RA Schools; 1st Exhibit at RA Summer Exhibition, a drawing and hung 'On the Line' 

1887 Gold Medal (The Captives) and Turner Prize (Sunset after a Storm) "a feat never accomplished by any previous student."

1895 Married - two sons. Both died tragically young.

1912 RI

1913 RP

1921 Portrait:  H. M. King George V.  

1921-1925 Wintered in New York. Set up studio on the 38th Floor of the Singer Building. Portraits and watercolours exhibited in New York.

1927 Portrait:  H. M. Queen Mary

1940 Died Wilmslow Cheshire

 

‘Classical’ paintings include "Una & The Lion",  "Ariadne in Naxos", "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve", "Perseus and Andromeda",  "Spring; An Allegory", "The Awakening of Spring", "Isabella and the Pot of Basil", "Flora & Zephyr" "Circe" (1914) "Pandora" (1917)

 

Portraits include many leading Methodist Ministers and benefactors; Industrialists including - Sir George Hayter Chubb Bt., Sir John Thornycroft, Lord Newton, Sir Percy Bates Bart., Robert McAlpine and the then President and of the Directors of the Singer Manufacturing Co., New York. The list is extensive and includes people from all walks of life.

 

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