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Painter of wildlife, notably birds, born near Kandy, Ceylon, son of the painter and naturalist George Henry and brother of the wildlife artist Bruce Henry. He began painting aged six. After school he did an office job in London for a while, then was conscripted into the Royal Tank Corps in 1940, becoming an officer cadet at Sandhurst. During the North Africa campaign Reid-Henry became ill, then served in India and the Far East as an officer in the military police, where he cultivated his interest in wildlife painting. Apart from lessons with his father and help from the noted bird painter George Lodge, Reid-Henry was self-taught. In 1948 he married and settled in Woodford Green, Essex, where he set up a studio as an artist and falconer. Although he illustrated many books and magazines, and produced several stamp series, his fees were low and living was hard.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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