The Snaffles prints for sale below represent a small selection of the many hunting, racing, military, naval, pigsticking and polo pictures available by Snaffles or Charles Johnson Payne. If there are any Snaffles Hunting Prints in particular that you are looking for, then please do not hesitate in contacting us on 07889 800857.
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Jim by Snaffles£495.00 -
The Timber Merchant by Snaffles£750.00 -
Ar Never Gets Off by Snaffles£125.00 -
Tally-Ho Back by Snaffles£1,250.00 -
Blimy, wot a life by Snaffles£795.00 -
Oh To be in Ireland by Snaffles£695.00 -
Prepare to Receive Cavalry by Snaffles£950.00 -
The Huntsman by Snaffles£950.00 -
The Gent in Ratcatcher by Snaffles£795.00 -
The Stone Wall by Snaffles£895.00 -
The Nut by Snaffles£1,150.00 -
Not Taking Any by Snaffles£695.00 -
If there is a Paradise by Snaffles£1,250.00 -
The Biggest Walls in the Counthry was in it by Snaffles£1,100.00 -
Great Banks there was below in the fields by Snaffles£1,100.00 -
Thrusters by Snaffles£950.00 -
That far, far away echo by Snaffles aka Charles Johnson Payne£950.00 -
Sandown – Asking em the Question by Snaffles£895.00 -
Ubique Meant Bank Olborne Bank A penny all the way by Snaffles£1,100.00 -
A Grand Military Gold Cup Steeplechase Impression by Snaffles£95.00 -
Le Poilu by Snaffles£395.00
Snaffles aka Charles Johnson Payne (1881 – 1967)
Snaffles aka Charles Johnson Payne was born in 1884 and was one of the greatest Hunting, Racing, Pig Sticking, Indian, Polo and Military artists of his time. Read More
Charles Johnson Payne (Pseudonym Snaffles) was the fourth of a bootmaker’s eight children and from his youth developed a passion for all things Military. He tried to enlist in the army to fight in the Boer war, but was rejected on the grounds that he was too young. Eventually, Payne joined the Royal Garrison Artillery at the age of 18 as a gunner but in 1906 he was forced to leave because of illness. However, his time in the army was influential, as his first recorded works of semi-caricature portrait date from this time.
Invalided out of World War One he took a job as a war artist for The Graphic and it was during these years that he produced some of his finest military work. After the war his work became more varied, although he still often contributed to The Sporting & Dramatic News.
It was as a sporting artist that Snaffles built his reputation and, after the War, he worked on the Hunting, Shooting, Polo, Horse Racing and Fishing subjects which made his name. The classic series of Pig Sticking prints he completed in India in the 1920s are perhaps the images for which Charles Payne is best known and his depictions of Military life in the Raj are second to none.
Snaffles built an element of humour into his work and the captions to his subjects were often as important as the artwork. Much of his work was published in limited edition format. Snaffles died in 1967.