€260
Star Lot: 'Charles Johnson Payne' (British, 1884-1967) Two large limited edition 'Charles Johnson Payne' (British, 1884-1967) coloured prints titled '435 / 500 The Finest View in Europe' and '433 / 500 The Worst View in Europe'. Signed 'Snaffles' and titled in pen and numbered in pencil to base. Along with stamp. Housed in matching wooden gilt frames behind glass. With Fine Art sticker to verso.
MM: 80 x 53 cm including frame.
Christened Charlie, he was born on 17 January 1884, the fourth of eight children of Ambrose Johnson Payne a Leamington boot maker with a shop at 45 Bath Street, Leamington. Charlie completed his three years with the colours in May 1905 and was placed on the reserve. There followed several lean years during which he was very hard up and made a living of sorts from his pencil and brush signing his work ‘Snaffles’. In 1907 he started to submit illustrations of hunting characters to the monthly magazine The Bystander and later to The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine. It was in 1914 in the early months of the Great War that he established his career as an artist and his work was in great demand.
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