Biography
Guy Richard Charles Wyndham (b. UK 1896 - d. Palestine / Israel 1948) was born into the landed aristocracy and educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Dick, as he was known by, served in the first World War in the Army at the second Battle of Ypres, then Salonika, winning the Military Cross. Bored with the life of a country gentleman at Clouds House, Wiltshire, Wyndham took up art, studying under Harold Speed and Wyndham Lewis. He bought Tickerage Mill, outside Uckfield, Sussex, near his friend Edward Wadsworth, and drove fast cars, flew his own plane and partied with an artistic group. He appeared in Wyndham Lewis’ novel The Apes of God (1930) as Richard Whittington.
Wyndham showed at Goupil and Leicester Galleries and Tooth & Sons, having his first solo exhibition there in 1933, and had work bought by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953), Manchester City Art Galleries and galleries in Brighton, Hull, Rochdale and Belfast. His books included a novel, Painter’s Progress (1938), and The Gentle Savage (1936), about travels in the Sudan, celebrated with a show at Tooth & Sons in 1937. Wyndham was invalided out of the Army during WW2 after a breakdown. He became a foreign correspondent in the Near East and was shot dead by a sniper in Palestine. His life was recounted by Caroline Dakers in the catalogue of a retrospective show at Henry Wyndham Fine Art, 1993.
