Oil on canvas mounted to board, signed at lower left, inscribed en verso, presented in a giltwood frame.

Board 18 x 22 in.; Frame dimensions 20 7/8 x 24 7/8 in.

Gordon Eastcott Payne was born in Payne Mills, Ontario. Inspired to paint by his uncle, William St. Thomas Smith, he furthered his studies under Mary Cox at the School of Fine Arts, New York, and under George Reid, J. W. Beatty and William Cruikshank at the Ontario College of Art.

Payne founded the Ingersoll Art Gallery in 1934 and pioneered children’s art classes in Ontario while working with Arthur Lister and other Group of Seven artists. Payne later taught at the Doon School of Fine Art before opening his own Payne School of Fine Art in Toronto (active 1946-1958).

After retiring, Payne moved to Hunts Point, Nova Scotia and opened a seasonal gallery. He is well known for his seascapes and landscapes of the Gloucester in Massachusetts, and in Ingersoll, Toronto and Halifax in Canada.

Some minor buckling and age cracking to the canvas; the frame with flaking at the corners, and pinholes to the corners, age cracking.