painter and art teacher, taught in Sydney in the 1890s. On 13 February 1892 Ethel Turner and her friend Nell had a painting lesson from a Mr Howes, presumably W.H., at his studio in St James’s Chambers. Turner noted in her diary:
...Mr. Howes is rather a nice man. His pictures are very good, but he is what he calls an impressionist and paints in that quick, rough style that catches the effect immediately, to us used to smooth painting it seems rather as if he squirts the tubes of paint at the canvas. Only three other students. (Poole, 91)
The NLA has W.H. Howes’s The Golden Glow of Evening: Glebe Point from Rosella [i.e. Rozelle] Bay, Sydney Harbour , 1897, oil on cardboard (Pic R3912), ill. NLA News June 1991, front and back covers.
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