David Paynter
This page is about the Sri Lankan Artist. For other people named David Paynter, see David Paynter (disambiguation)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.
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| Birth date | January 01, 1900 |
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| Birth name | David Shillingford Paynter |
| Date of death | June 07, 1975 |
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