Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne

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Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne

by Ithell Colquhoun
oil on canvas, 1935
27 in. x 14 in. (685 mm x 355 mm)
Bequeathed by Mrs Arthur H.S. Megaw, 1993
Primary Collection
NPG 6230

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  • NPG 5269: Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne (sketch)

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  • Rogers, Malcolm, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, 1993 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 August to 23 October 1994), p. 175
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 484

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Current affairs

Stanley Baldwin starts his third term as Prime Minister after Ramsay Macdonald resigns due to ill health. Coincidentally, Baldwin's first term in office also came about when the Prime Minister of the time, Bonar Law, stepped down due to illness in 1923.

Art and science

Robert Watson-Watt demonstrates Radar, showing how an aircraft can be tracked by detecting radio waves reflected off it. During the war, Watson-Watt established a network of machines and operators that helped detect the approach of enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain.
Penguin publishes its first paperback books, making reading more portable and affordable to a wider audience.

International

Italy invades Abyssinia. The invasion of the country now known as Ethiopia was part of Mussolini's plan to create an Italian Empire. It was also an attempt to avenge Abyssinia's victory over the Italian army at Adowa in 1896.
Germany introduces conscription, breaking the disarmament clause of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Richard Shillitoe

09 September 2015, 18:53

During the 1930s Colquhoun spent part of each year travelling and painting in the Mediterranean. She and Payne met in Greece in the summer of 1933. She visited his excavations at Perachora and a friendship ensued.
A series of personal letters from him to her, at first passionate and later fractious as his feelings ran from infatuation to frustration, are in the archives at Tate Britain (call numbers TGA 929/1/1402-1552). Colquhoun ended the relationship in 1935.