Victorian Flower Gardens

by Andrew Clayton-Payne

Picturesque tumbledown cottages, their gardens ablaze with roses, delphiniums, and hollyhocks, inspired a whole generation of Victorian artists. 130 inspired works by painters such as Helen Allingham, Claude Strachan, and David Woodlock, along with forty others, compose a fascinating and splendid historical record of the flowers and features that characterized the Victorian English country garden. "...a cornucopia of entrancing watercolors."--The Field. "As happy a book as you are likely to meet."--Arts Review.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1988

About the author

Andrew Clayton-Payne read History of Art and Italian at the University of Bristol. He set up as a private dealer in Old Bond Street in 1997 following eight years as Head of British Watercolours and Drawings at Christie's.

He deals discreetly in 17th-, 18th- and 19th century English and European pictures from his second-floor gallery at 14 Old Bond Street. Situated in Mayfair, Andrew Clayton-Payne is in the centre of London's art dealing district and close to the Royal Academy of Arts on Piccadilly.

A highly respected specialist, Andrew Clayton-Payne is a published author with two books on 19th Century painting, including the best selling Victorian Flower Gardens published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1988. He has also written on a wide variety of subjects for magazines such as Country Life and has acted as an independent adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Acceptance in Lieu panel and the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art.

Andrew Clayton-Payne is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers.