Artist: Henry (Hewitt) Rayner (1902 - 1957)
Medium: Etching - signed in the plate and in pencil Lower Right.
Date 1936 - a label written in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand, and taped to the backboard gives the name and date
Size [Metric]: 15.5 x 15 cm. With frame: 48 x 38 cm.
Size [Imperial]: 6 x 6 in. With Frame: 19 x 15 in.
Condition: Very good. Minor marking to simple "Hogarth" frame.
Price: £100.
Henry Rayner
An etcher and printmaker, Henry Rayner was born in Australia and worked there before coming to Britain in about 1924. He studied at the Royal Academy and was a friend of Walter Sickert. He was badly wounded in the blitz and became reclusive towards the end of his life.
Henry Rayner is represented in the Ashmolean Museum, the Queen's Collection,
The National Portrait Gallery and many other museums and art galleries
including the National Gallery of Australia.
The National Portrait Gallery collection includes three of his works (2
of Walter Sickert (1931) both etchings and one of King George V (1939)
- dry-point).
