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William Payne, O.W.S. (London 1754-1833)
Lot 139

William Payne, O.W.S. (London 1754-1833)

Market day in a country town

Fermé5 July 2011

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GBP 1,250

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William Payne, O.W.S. (London 1754-1833)
Market day in a country town
watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1983, lot 35, as 'Market Day'.
with Michael Bryan, London, 1984, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Only two years after he had first exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain, where he was instructed by Henry Gilder, a protégé of Thomas Sandby, Payne obtained a post as a draughtsman for the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London aged only eighteen. Although he was stylistically close to Thomas and Paul Sandby, Payne invented a number of devices which he used throughout his career, most notably using grey pigment for his foreground - still known as Payne's Grey. Payne joined the Old Water-Colour Society in 1809.