1871 – 31 August 1940), commonly referred to as H. E. Powell, was a painter and photolithographer in Adelaide, South Australia.
[4] He was a member of Gill's exclusive but short-lived Adelaide Art Circle, which folded in 1892 when many of its members joined the moribund South Australian Society of Arts in order to bring it back to life.
Three of its members (Gill, W. K. Gold and Powell) were elected president, secretary and treasurer respectively.
[5] He was one of those responsible in 1898 for initiating the annual Federal Exhibition of Australian Art, through which many paintings were acquired for the National Gallery's Australia Room, through the Elder Bequest.
Powell was a member of the St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, and a prominent lawn bowls player.