Mary Pownall

Maiden Meditation

The Harpy Celaeno, 1902, by Mary Pownall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Mary Pownall (1862-1937) was a British sculptor. She was active from 1890 until 1937. She is particularly associated with Watford.^[1]

Life

Pownall was born in Leigh in Lancashire in 1862. In the 1890s she was living in Birkenhead. She studied in Frankfurt in 1896 and in Paris from 1897 to 1898 where she tutored by Auguste Rodin. She then studied in Rome from 1898 to 1901. In Rome she lived at 53b Via Margutta.^[2]

In 1902 she married Alfred Bromet, a barrister, but she continued to use her maiden name for her work. From 1903 to 1931 they lived at Lime Lodge, Pinner Road in Watford.

In 1935 she wrote an illustrated autobiography, "Response", under the name Mary Pownall Bromet.^[3]

She died in Oxhey in Hertfordshire on 25 February 1937.

Works

see^[4]

• Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon (c.1900)^[5] first mayor of Watford
• The Harpy Celaeno, Kelvingrove Art Gallery (1902)
• Love or Money (1906)
• An Intruder (1906)
• The Great Specialist (1907)
• A Ragamuffin (1907)
• A Bolshevic Commisar (1923)
• An Aviator (c.1925)^[6]
• Ralph Edward Thorpe (1927)^[7] second mayor of Watford
• Watford War Memorial, Watford Town Hall (unveiled 1928 at the Peace Memorial Hospital)^[8]
• Politics (1931)
• Acquedotts Claudio, Roma
• A Sunbeam
• The Kiss
• A La Recherche de la Brebis Perdu
• Mercury
• Maiden Meditation

References