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

Market day in a country town

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

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Lot Essay

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.

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