A Pair of Sepia Landscapes by William Payne (1760-1830)

Pair of Sepia Landscapes By William Payne (1760 -1830), the first shows a group of rustic figures beside a waterfall with thatched cottages beyond, the second a drover watering his four pack horses in a wooded landscape. Signed , and bearing labels from The Leger Gallery Bond St, 1965.

William Payne (4 March 1760 – August 1830) was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's Grey. Payne, who is supposed to have been a native of Devonshire, held an appointment in the engineers' department at Plymouth Dockyard, and resided at Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) till 1790, when he came to London, and took up residence in Thornhaugh Street. He was already known as a landscape-painter, having exhibited at the Incoorporated soceity Of Artist's in 1776, and at the Royal Academy since 1786. Some of his views of slate quarries at Plympton had been praised by his fellow-countryman, Sir Joshua Reynold's, the president of the Royal Academy; and others, drawn in 1788 and 1789, were engraved for Samuel Middiman's Select Views in Great Britain (1784–92).n 1809 he was elected an associate of the Watercolour Soceity, but left it after the reform of the original society in 1812. During the four years of his connection with the society he sent seventeen drawings to their exhibitions.

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