Retired art dealer Patrick Payne, formerly of Arden Gallery, Henley-in-Arden, and later of Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, has died at his daughter’s home in London aged 86.
Patrick, who was born in Willington near Shipston-on- Stour on July 15, 1932, was the only child of Percy John Beauchamp Payne and Marian Payne (nee Bryan) and a cousin of the late Sarah Nichola Hobhouse Payne, later Viscountess Sandon. He was orphaned in 1941 after the sudden death of both his parents.