Henry Payne (artist)

Henry Albert Payne RWS, also known as "Henry Arthur Payne", (1868 – 4 July 1940) was a British stained glass artist, watercolourist and painter of frescoes.

Henry Payne
Self portrait (circa 1890)
Born1868
Kings Heath, Birmingham, England
Died1940
NationalityEnglish
EducationBirmingham School of Art, also under Christopher Whall
Known forStained glass

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.

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