George Hyde Pownall

One, Francis George Hyde Pownall, enlisted in the Australian Army and was killed at Pozières in France during the First World War.

He was a soloist at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church for ten years and a member of the choir of Westminster Cathedral.

[5] He worked at a time when horse-drawn and motor vehicle traffic coexisted in London streets and gas light was still commonplace making his nocturnal or twilight images very evocative.

His work has been compared to John Atkinson Grimshaw and James Abbott McNeill Whistler in its impressionistic feeling.

Henry R. LEW, "Imaging the World 2018", Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne, Australia, {ISBN 9781925272819} Chapter 16: George Hyde Pownall and the Grimshaws, pages 251-261.