19th and 20th century European and British Paintings

Born Paul Ayshford on 29th September 1886 at Corsham, in Wiltshire. He was the son of Field-Marshal Lord Methuen. Educated at New College, Oxford, taking a degree in Natural Science in 1910. Methuen later studied painting under Sir Charles Holmes, and then Walter Sickert. He worked as an assistant at the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria (1910-14) and served in the Scots Guards (1914-19). Methuen’s First solo exhibition was at the Warren Gallery in 1928. Thereafter, he held many solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries and at Colnaghi's and showed at RA and NEAC. He was elected a member of the RA in 1959. A Retrospective exhibition was held in 1972 at the Royal West of England Academy, of which he was President, and a memorial show at 1975 at the Fieldbourne Galleries. Methuen was a trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery from 1938-1945 and was also the Monuments and Fine Arts Officer 1944-45.

RBA 1936

ARWS 1944

RWS 1952

Hon ARIBA 1947

ARA 1951

RA 1959

The Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum hold his work.

Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II