Harry Payne (artist)
Harry Payne (1858–1927) was an English military artist.
Biography[]
Henry Joseph Payne, born at Newington, London, the son of Joseph and Margaret Sophie Payne. His father was a solicitor's clerk. He married Susanna Terese Cossins at Camberwell on 16 June 1887 and they had no children.
With his brother, , he produced many series of oilette postcards for Raphael Tuck & Sons and also did extensive work for Gale and Polden producing illustrations for their postcard series along with other military artists including Edgar Alfred Holloway, John McNeill, and .
In 1898, he and his brother Arthur created a series of chromolithographic and lithographic illustrations for an edition of Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Harry Payne was a part time volunteer soldier, serving with the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry. In 1905 he received the Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Medal, he then having the rank of sergeant.[1]
Legacy[]
His 1901 painting of the Royal Horse Guards crossing Horse Guards Parade was sold at Bonhams in 2007 for over £50,000.[2]
Gallery[]
The Manchester Regiment in the 1880s
Private of the East Lancashire Regiment in pre-1914
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the 1880s
The 17th Lancers advancing
See also[]
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Further reading[]
- Cane, Michael (1977). For Queen and Country: The Career of Harry Payne, Military Artist, 1858-1927. Kingston: Michael Cane. OCLC 28514215
- Harrington, Peter (2001). British Army Uniforms in Color as Illustrated by John McNeill, Ernest Ibbetson, Edgar A. Holloway and Harry Payne, c. 1908-1919. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. ISBN 0764313029 OCLC 47663780
- Harris, R.G., "Harry Payne - Military Artist," Tradition, No. 46, 1970, pp. 13–16.
References[]
- ^ The Orders & Medals Research Society Journal, Vol 26 No 3, Autumn 1987, page 202.
- ^ "Lewisham Council - 1968 Harry Payne Collection" (PDF). Retrieved 18 September 2009.
External links[]
- Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library oil panels, water-colors, and prints by Harry Payne
- 1858 births
- 1927 deaths
- 19th-century war artists
- Military art
- English artists
- Postcard artists