Object Description
JOSEPH ARTHUR POWELL
(1876-1961)
Misty Autumn Day, Rye
Signed l.l.; inscribed with title on the reverse (beneath the mount)
Watercolour
Unframed
27 by 37 cm., 10 ½ by 14 ½ in.
(mount size 41 by 50 cm., 16 by 19 ¾ in.)
Born in London he was the son of the successful landscape painter Alfred Powell. In 1919 Joseph Arthur married and moved to live at Todhurst, Plaistow near Billingshurst. Having studied under his father he too became a successful landscape watercolourist and is best known for his delightful studies of Surrey and Sussex, in particular he worked near his home at Plaistow, on the Sussex Downs and the area around Rye where his parents had retired in later life.