David Paynter
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1900 –
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Who is David Paynter?
David Shillingford Paynter RA, OBE, 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 Chapel of Trinity College, Kandy and The Chapel of the Transfiguration, of S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia. The Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau commemorated Christmas in 1996 with two stamps featuring the murals from the Trinity Chapel.
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