Charles Paine A.R.C.A.

Paine painted these shapes for use as teaching aids.

Cow studies.   Undated.

Dogs playing (?)   Undated.

Plant studies.   Undated.

Turtle copied from ‘Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes and lower chordata’                            Edited by J.T. Cunningham Methuen 1912

Undated

Paine always carried a notebook and sketched in pen or pencil, whichever was to hand.   All undated.

The Russell Hotel is probably the Hotel Russell on Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, renamed the Kimpton Fitzroy on 24 October 2018.

Reclining nude dated 18 March 1966.

Paine attended life drawing classes during the year before his death in 1967.

Saint Francis.   Undated.   Signed lower right ‘Charles Paine’.

No doubt the drawing reflects the legend of St. Francis preaching to the birds.   Even the fish are drawn by his holiness.

I don’t know which saints are represented.   Undated.

All undated

Pencil study for Observer Jack Cliff

Observer Jack Cliff, Part B                                                                                                     Passed for Publication 26 Oct 1942 Press and Censorship Bureau

See post March 10, 2018

Studies for baby face

John Duke of Marlborough

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Study for black king in the memorial window Paine designed for Queen’s Park High Parish Church, Queen’s Drive, Glasgow.   (cf. post October 23, 2017)

The following are unnamed and undated

Paine was renowned for his cartoons though he was never, so far as is known, a professional cartoonist.   This cartoon in celebration of the New Year could be a scene from The Wind in the Willows.  It was drawn for John Platt during the 1930s.

‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot . . .’    Blackheath 1930s

(Reproduced by kind permission of the estate of John Platt)

Jocelyn Morton observed that Paine’s ‘whimsical personality’ was as striking as ‘the imaginative quality of his work’.   (Jocelyn Morton Three Generations of a Family Textile Firm: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1971)    He reproduced this letter from Paine to his father, James Morton.

Mrs Hards, Paine’s neighbour at Welwyn, told how these little comments on his neighbours and fellow citizens would appear on her doormat at regular intervals.   She recalled how one of Paine’s ‘caricatures of a Mrs. Stock with “rather protruding teeth” was left accidentally on the seat at a concert she had organised.’   (Charles Paine 1895 -1967 Article by Ambrose Hogan and Sue Kirby, Welwyn Hatfield Museum Service 1992)

Charles Paine and Joan Bolshaw were married at Holy Trinity Church, Horwich, Lancashire, on 18 October 1962.   Paine was 67 and Joan was 48.   They honeymooned for two weeks in London and Tunbridge Wells before returning to Gorey Pier.   Paine commented on events in a series of cartoons.

Don’t forget the ring.

The honeymoon

Married bliss

Joan’s sister, Greta, lived at Horwich in Lancashire and Paine got on very well with her Scottish husband, Mac (Bertie McPherson), a retired railway engineer.   Mac was short and stout, humorous and fond of a dram and Charles was tall and lean and by no means a teetotaler.   Rivington Pike is a summit of Winter Hill and is clearly visible from Horwich.   They would be sent out every day for a walk with the dogs, Joe, a golden retriever, and Mungo, a black labrador.     This birthday card commemorates these events.

Paine as a Scotsman

Paine as a rattlesnake

This was probably drawn one evening at The Moorings Hotel, Gorey, during the early 1960s.

All I know about this baby cartoon is that it makes me smile.

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This is my only record of this watercolour.   The location of the courtyard is unknown though it is probably in Jersey and painted during the 1950s, perhaps in St. Helier.

Paine made a number of preliminary sketches in a notebook which give some indication of colour and show his meticulous preparation and attention to detail.