Henry Albert Payne - Artist Info

About Henry Albert Payne

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Henry Arthur Payne
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    Henry Albert Payne RWS, also known as "Henry Arthur Payne", (1868 – 4 July 1940) was an English stained glass artist, watercolourist and painter of frescoes.

    He was one of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen who formed around Joseph Southall and the Birmingham School of Art in the late nineteenth century. He was involved in several of the group's collective projects, most notably the decoration of the chapel at Madresfield Court, which numbers among the seminal achievements of the Arts and Crafts movement.

    Born in the King's Heath area of Birmingham, Payne studied under Edward R. Taylor at the Birmingham School of Art, where he was one of the students commissioned to paint a series of murals under Taylor's supervision for...

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