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Melbourne from Victoria Gardens
George Hyde Pownall, 1876-1932ca. 1911–1930
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Pownall painted many cityscapes, emphasising Melbourne’s fine public buildings and churches. He also painted quieter suburban streetscapes in St Kilda, where he lived from 1924. He captured much of the essence of modernity and change at a time when Melbourne was experiencing great prosperity. He also contributed considerably to the tradition of the cityscape, which began soon after the Gold Rushes of the 1850s.
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Details
- Title: Melbourne from Victoria Gardens
- Creator: George Hyde Pownall, 1876-1932
- Date: ca. 1911–1930
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria
- Provenance: Gift of Ms June Davies, 1990.
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1709546
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/107136
- Physical dimensions: 27.0 x 45.7 cm., in frame 36.8 x 57.1 cm.
- Medium: Oil on millboard
- A.E. Ferris: George Pownall was born in England and exhibited landscape paintings in Leeds, Liverpool and Nottingham. A respected tenor who sang in the Westminster Abbey choir, Pownall was also an accomplished pianist, performing with several theatre orchestras as both pianist and conductor. Arriving in Australia in 1911, Pownall toured with Sir Edward Branscombe's Jesters and Dandies' Company and later travelled to Queensland with the Courtiers Touring Theatre Company. Between engagements, he conducted the Lyric Theatre Orchestra in St Kilda, and worked as a scene painter with the Bijou and Tivoli theatres, both in Bourke Street.
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