Henry Payne (artist)

For Henry Payne's works, see List of works by Henry Payne.

Henry Payne
Self portrait (circa 1890)
Nationality	English
Education	Birmingham School of Art, also under Christopher Whall
Known for	Stained Glass
Notable work	Stained glass

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

Payne 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.^[1]

Early years and studies

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 the redecoration of Birmingham Town Hall - the first "outward and visible sign of the rise to fame and importance of the Birmingham School".^[2]

Birmingham School educator

In 1899 Payne was appointed to the School's staff, initially as a teacher of drawing and painting, but increasingly concentrating through the 1890s on the design of stained glass. In 1900 he installed a glass kiln at the school and studied stained glass manufacture in London under Christopher Whall so that, in the Arts and Crafts tradition, design and manufacture could be taught as an integrated process.^[3] Among his outstanding students was Margaret Agnes Rope.

Stained glass and painting

From at least 1904 onwards he established an independent business designing and manufacturing stained glass, producing large and notable works for churches such as E. S. Prior's St. Andrew’s, Roker, St Martins, Kensal Rise, St Mary's, Madresfield and J. L. Pearson's St Alban's, Bordesley.^[3]

In common with most of the Birmingham Group he worked across a wide variety of media, producing book illustrations for the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft and interior decoration for the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts. Although most prolific in stained glass, Payne's most notable achievements were arguably in the field of decorative painting. Between 1902 and 1923 he worked on the wall paintings of the chapel at Madresfield Court near Malvern in Worcestershire. Painted as fresco in tempera and sitting alongside work by other figures of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts movement such as William Bidlake, Georgie Gaskin and Charles March Gere, Madresfield Court is "not only Payne's most important scheme of decorative painting, but probably the most famous of all such Arts and Crafts schemes".^[2]

West Window, Hook Church: The "Good Shepherd" window by Henry Payne. A mix of a typical English country scene, with lambs and a stream, but with lions behind the wicker fence and a biblical king complete with what appears to be a zither.
Choosing the Red and White Roses (c. 1908), Pen and watercolor, gouache, gold-leaf and oil.

In 1908 he was commissioned to produce a wall painting for the later stages of the decoration of the Palace of Westminster. His work The Plucking of the Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden - an allegory on the Wars of the Roses - now hangs in the Palace's East Corridor.

Payne also painted landscapes in watercolour, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1899 to 1935^[4] and being elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1920.^[5]

St Loe's Guild

In Amberley, Payne continued producing work in fresco and stained glass, and in 1912 established St Loe's Guild, initially modelled in the Arts and Crafts tradition on the Bromsgrove Guild, though ultimately little more than a vehicle for his own works.^[2]

Personal life

In 1909 Payne and his family moved to Amberley in Gloucestershire, one of several significant Arts and Crafts figures to move to the Cotswolds.^[4]

External links

Biography for Henry Payne Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

References

↑ Madresfield Court The Elmley Foundation
1 2 3 Breeze, George: "Decorative Painting" in Crawford, Alan (ed): By Hammer and Hand : the Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1984 pp 62-65
1 2 Harrison, Martin: "Stained Glass: Windows on another World" in Crawford, Alan (ed): By Hammer and Hand : the Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1984 pp 120-123
1 2 "Henry Arthur Payne (1868-1940)" in Christian, John (ed): The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art - Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer. London, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1993 ISBN 0-85331-552-3
↑ Henry A. Payne (1868 - 1940) The Modernist Journals Project for students and scholars of modernism

British and Irish stained glass

British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)

History

Influences

Artistic movements	Aesthetic Movement Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Biblia pauperum Cambridge Camden Society Classicism Early Renaissance Exoticism Gothic Revival Oxford Movement Romanticism

Organisations	The Glass House Hogarth Club Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

People

Architectural	John Loughborough Pearson Augustus Pugin George Gilbert Scott Alexander Thomson

Artists	Edward Liddall Armitage Hugh Arnold Alfred E. Child Margaret Chilton Harry Clarke Walter Francis Clokey Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Trena Cox Louis Davis works Rachel de Montmorency Alfred Drury Mabel Esplin Moira Forsyth Wilhelmina Geddes Jane Gray Reginald Hallward works Herbert Hendrie James Humphries Hogan Evie Hone Joan Howson works Marjorie Kemp Charles Eamer Kempe Mary Lowndes William Morris Catherine Amelia O’Brien Karl Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz Francis Skeat works Caroline Townshend works Christopher Webb Christopher Whall works Veronica Whall works Thomas Willement William Wilson Paul Woodroffe works Edward Woore works British stained-glass artists Irish stained-glass artists

Critics	John Ruskin

Manufacturers	An Túr Gloine Burlison and Grylls Harry Clarke Clayton and Bell Walter Francis Clokey Daniel Cottier John Hardman & Co. Heaton, Butler and Bayne Hincks and Burnell Lavers, Barraud and Westlake Morris & Co. James Powell and Sons Shrigley and Hunt William Wailes William Warrington

Examples

Images

Terminology

Christopher Whall and his followers

Works	List of works Gloucester Cathedral War Memorial windows Scotland works Cathedrals and Minster windows

Followers	Arnold Wathen Robinson Caroline Townshend Edward Woore (works) Henry Payne (works) Hugh Arnold Karl Parsons (works) Lilian Josephine Pocock Louis Davis (works) Mabel Esplin Margaret Chilton Marjorie Kemp Paul Woodroffe (works) Rachel de Montmorency Reginald Hallward (works) Veronica Whall (works)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 95768848 ULAN: 500014334 RKD: 62218

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