Edward Richard Taylor (1838-1911) The Village Well, 1879 signed and dated (lower right) oil on canvas 49 x 59cm. Information: Head of Birmingham School of Art when Charles Gere and William Payne were students and later tutors. Provenance: From the collection of John Redman (b.1937). John Redman lived with the Payne and Gere families in their Cotswold home during the 2nd World War from 1940 to 1944. He points out the home was a constant visiting location for a number of important artists and writers including Sir Stanley Spencer, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Sir William Rothenstein, George Bernard Shaw, John Betjeman and many others. He has collected a comprehensive range of the Payne and Gere families works through a lifetime's friendship with Edward R. Payne (1906-1991), the Payne's second son of three and also an artist. These are well represented by the selection included in this auction.