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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekend’s bonus artist thread , the artist featured this weekend is  George Hyde Pownell 1866-1939.  Born in Nottinghamshire he was a English artist known for his depiction of London street scenes. He later emigrated to Australia where he painted the expanding City of Melbourne. He was a noted musician in England and continued his musical career in Australia. Further information about him can be found on Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy my selection of his artwork. 

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Norrette Moore

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Ooh!  (Technical term for: I like very much)

Russell Edwards

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You see so many 'modern' paintings depicting busy streets, tall buildings and traffic with reflections of headlights and tail lights on the wet tarmac etc, its refreshing to see a similar theme from a bygone age. The first half dozen or so are  brilliantly painted and so atmospheric.

Tessa Gwynne

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Very atmospheric paintings especially the first few of London with fog, smog and gas lamps, certainly a memory of those times. Not so keen on the last three daylight views though they are obviously well painted but they lack that something special in the previous ones. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The last ones I think are in Melbourne , very different light etc,m I would think back then it was less built up and difficult to get the atmosphere of a old city like London . 

Tessa Gwynne

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Makes sense! I will look him up later.

Jenny Harris

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I too prefer his atmospheric London scenes, especially the one of Tower Bridge.  Had a look at some of his work online and was surprised how small some of his paintings are - a lot are listed as oil on panel 6” x 9”.

Alan Bickley

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The Tower Bridge is exceptional… a talented artist, although I’m not overly keen on his evening scenes, with the lit up buildings!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Another one here in praise of the Tower Bridge painting - it's just a lovely thing.   I see the reservations people are expressing about some of the others, and I suppose I share them - but take a look at his dates; well, plainly he didn't die in 1039: that's Dixie, hitting the wrong key....   But born in 1866, and painting, on the whole, some very small pictures - this is unusual for a painter of that generation, and makes him more original than one might otherwise suppose.  I like his fresh colour - so many Victorian/Edwardian artists painted rather dark, muddy pictures (though many didn't: e.g. though Atkinson Grimshaw painted a lot of dark, crepuscular pictures, they certainly weren't muddy - but permit me to generalize!) - his paintings are light, and his colours clean.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Robert I certainly had missed the 9 button there. I join you all in the Tower Bridge appreciation group certainly had a great atmosphere about it.