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Signed and dated, titled on the reverse
Pastel on buff paper, 17⅜ × 13¼ in. (44 × 33 cm.)
Provenance:The Fine Art Society

This possibly shows the artist’s daughter at St Loe’s House, the family home and studio in Amberley, Gloucestershire. The gilded tablet to the right might well be the work of Edith Payne, Henry’s wife, who was a watercolourist and gilder. The composition is closely related to the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum’s watercolour The Reader 1933, which shows the same solitary sitter in a similar setting, viewed from behind and reading.
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Signed and inscribed with title on the reverse
Pastel on buff paper, sight size 13 × 10¼ in. (33 × 26 cm.), overall size 16F × 12¼ in. (43 × 31cm.)
Provenance:The Fine Art Society

The coronation of George VI took place on 12 May 1937, some five months after the abdication of Edward VII. Celebrations took place throughout England, culminating in the lighting of a chain of bonfires, acting as beacons, across the country.

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Henry Payne 1848 - 1940

Born at King's Heath, Birmingham, Payne studied at the Birmingham School of Art under E R Taylor. He was among the students who painted murals in the Town Hall (his panel exhibited 1890), and joined the staff in 1889. His main interest was in stained glass. Having taught the subject in the 1890, he himself underwent a course of instruction from Christopher WhaII in 1901, and by 1904, though still teaching, He was running a busy independent stained-glass prac¬tice. Meanwhile he was involved in a number of decorative schemes with the Bromsgrove Guild, and in 1902 was commissioned to decorate the chapel at Madresfield Court, a task which occupied him for twenty years and is one of the great achievements of the Arts and Crafts movement. It also led to his painting a mural in the Palace of Westminster. In 1901 he had married Edith Gere, sister of Charles and Margaret and herself a talented artist, and in 1909 they settled at St Loe's House, Amberley, in Gloucestershire, thus consolidating the colonisation of the Cotswolds by Birmingham artists begun when the Geres had moved to Painswick a few years earlier. He continued to pro¬duce stained glass and founded the `St Loe's Guild', while also painting portraits and landscapes. He exhibited at the RA (1899- 1935), with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and elsewhere, and was a member of the Society of Painters in Tempera. Died at Amberley 4 July 1940.