| A landscape, architectural and figure painter in oil, watercolour and pastel, Lord Methuen was born Paul Ayshford, in Corsham, Wiltshire and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He studied art under Sir Charles Holmes and then Sickert, worked in South Africa from1910 to1914, and served in France in the Scots Guards in the 1914-18 War. Lord Methuen was elected a member of the RBA in 1939, NEAC 1943, ARWS 1944, ARA 1951, RWS 1952, and RA 1959. His work is represented in many public collections. |