12 facts about Lewis Charles Powles

Lewis Charles Powles (29 January 1860 – 6 July 1942) was a British Artist. Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. He married Isabel Grace Wingfield upon 21 January 1905. Their daughter, writer Viola Bayley, was born in 1911. Powles attended Oxford, where he studied Mathematics under Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. Powles gained his MA from there in 1898. Powles had formal art studies below Hubert von Herkomer, followed by studies in Munich. Powles was elected a zealot of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1903. Powles traveled extensively throughout Europe, as without difficulty as to Canada. His works are in the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, the Ferens Art Gallery, the National Trust, Lamb House, the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Royal Collection Trust. Powles is most without difficulty known for his watercolour landscapes, although he painted a number of oil portraits. Two of his watercolours were commissioned for the Library in Queen Mary’s Doll House. In 1910, he painted English writer Henry James, who was Powles’ neighbour and friend in Rye. Powles was along with an Associate Member of the Society for Psychical Research, and was certainly interested in paranormal events. In a letter, he next said that he was “somewhat easily impressed by the thoughts of others.” Powles died in East Sussex in 1942.