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Arthur Trevethin Nowell 1862 – 1940 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, Entered
the RA Schools; 1st Exhibit at RA Summer Exhibition, a drawing and hung
'On the Line' 1887 Gold Medal (The Captives) and
Turner Prizes (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 Portraits: 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 Portraits: H. M. Queen
Mary 1940 Died Wilmslow Cheshire ‘Classical’ paintings included
"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 many of the Directors of the
Singer Manufacturing Co., New York. The list is extensive and includes
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