In contact with many prominent women artists, Payne numbered among her friends Jessie Traill, Ethel Carrick Fox and the writer Dorothea Mackellar. She promoted the careers of young artists such as Daphne Mayo and Lloyd Rees. Payne had joined the Society of Women Painters in 1919, served on the society's committees and council for many years, and, from 1921, contributed to every annual exhibition.
This is a portrait of her friend Jessie Traill in fancy dress. Although undated it was most likely painted in the mid-1920s.
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