David Paynter (artist)
David Shillingford Paynter | |
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| Born | David Shillingford Paynter 5 March 1900 Almora, India |
| Died | 7 June 1975 (aged 75) |
| Resting place | Union Church Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education | Trinity College, Kandy, Royal Academy Heywood Institute of Art |
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David Shillingford Paynter RA, OBE (5 March 1900 – 7 June 1975), was an internationally renowned Sri Lankan painter. He was a pioneer creator of a Sri Lankan idiom in what was essentially a Western art form. His most celebrated works are his murals at the Trinity College Chapel in Kandy and the Chapel of the Transfiguration, at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. The Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau commemorated Christmas in 1996 with two stamps featuring the murals from the Trinity Chapel.