etcher, engraver and die-sinker, came to Adelaide in about 1849. He made the £1 and £5 gold coin tokens for the Adelaide Assay Office in 1852. The Art Gallery of South Australia [AGSA] holds his Natives of South Australia , described by Carroll as 'a small, rough etching’. In 1853, still as an employee of the Government Assay Office, he was awarded a gold medal for his 'fine specimen of heraldic engraving on silver plate’ shown at the fourth Victorian Industrial Society Exhibition. Payne is listed in South Australian directories for 1856, 1862 and 1869 as an engraver of King William Street, Adelaide, of Currie Street in 1867. At the 1863 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts 'J. Payne’ showed Near Ryde, Isle of Wight along with a group of chalk drawings.
designer, designed a memorial tablet for Carl Linger c.1865 (Adelaide, steel, oak, glass, 39.5 × 22 cm) inscribed:
IN MEMORY OF Carl C Linger Musical Composer & ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTOR many years resident in SOUTH AUSTRALIA Born at Berlin 15th March 1810. Died at Adelaide. 16th February 1862. SONG OF AUSTRALIA.
It depicts the seated muse of music weeping over the death of the composer surrounded by a collection of musical instruments. The engraver was Joshua Payne (c.1810-1889). Purchased (by whom it is not currently known) with funds raised by benefit concerts in 1863-65, the tablet was transferred to the AGSA in 1916.
Joshua Payne died at his Hackney residence in May 1889, aged 79, having been an invalid for four years before his death. His obituarist called him an engraver by trade who had been 40 years in the colony. His wife, three sons and two daughters survived him.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 1989
