Edward Raymond Payne was a painter and stained glass artist who was born in Acocks Green, Birmingham, England, where his father, Henry Payne, had taught the art of stained glass at the Birmingham Municipal School of Arts. During the war, Edward served in the Royal Dragoon Guards and, although not an official war artist, produced many portraits and scenes now in the Imperial War Museum and regimental museum in York. He taught life drawing at the Stroud Art School and was responsible for the upkeep of the stained glass windows in Gloucester Cathedral. He lived for most of his working life in Box, Gloucestershire.