Arthur Trevethin Nowell  RI   RP   1862 - 1940

A. T. Nowell (sometimes mistakenly read as A J Nowell) Painter of Classical subjects, Portraits and Landscapes. Exhibited at The Royal Academy between 1882 -1939 (100), The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) (120), The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP), The New Gallery and other London and provincial Galleries in Britain also Europe and America, especially New York. Nowell was the son of a Wesleyan Minister. He attended the Manchester School of Art and between 1882 and 1887 the RA Schools where he uniquely won the dual awards of The Gold Medal (History) and The Turner Prize (Landscape). With the accompanying bursaries he studied in Paris and toured Europe. His large Biblical canvas "The Expulsion of Adam & Eve" (Walker A.G. Liverpool) brought him wider recognition in his thirties. Commissions for portrait paintings from the outset however helped to support him. He acquired a studio in London. As public interest in 'High Art' waned his initial attention to this form mostly, but not exclusively, was overtaken by portraiture and his beloved watercolours in which he engaged continuously on regular visits to Scotland and tours of Europe. His Wesleyan connections proved pivotal leading to commissions to paint portraits of many well known people including King George V and Queen Mary of which there are a number in The Royal Collection and elsewhere. In the 1920s Nowell had a seasonal studio in The Singer Skyscraper in New York.