Richard Wyndham

Guy Richard Charles Wyndham (29 August 1896 – 19 May 1948) was a British painter, engraver, author and soldier. He was a member of the Bright Young People, a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the Roaring Twenties.

He served as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, In response Wyndham offered two of Lewis's paintings for sale in The Times personal column, describing them by size rather than description.

In 1914, still only 18, he unexpectedly inherited Clouds House at East Knoyle in Wiltshire. From 1924 he let the house out, and sold the entire estate in 1936. In 1927 he purchased Tickerage Mill, a residence on the outskirts of Uckfield, Sussex, close to his friend, fellow painter Edward Wadsworth. His social circle included Tallulah Bankhead, Ann Charteris, Cyril Connolly, Tom Driberg, Ian Fleming, Constant Lambert, Peter Quennell, the Sitwells and A. J. A. Symons. Bright Young People group at a costume party in 1927; Wyndham is listed in the photography's caption.

He entered his first marriage in 1920 with Iris Winifred Youell Bennett (divorced in 1925) and, for the second time, with Grethe Wulfsberg in 1930 (divorced in 1941).

He died in 1948 in Palestine while covering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a correspondent for The Sunday Times.

Author The Gentle Savage: A Sudanese Journey in the Province of Bahr-El-Ghazal, Commonly Called The Bog was published in 1936. It chronicles Wyndham's travels in Southern Sudan up the Nile by river boat, including 48 photos by the author. An account of a pre-war journey he made around South East England was published in 1940, also including his own photographs.

His half brother was the writer and editor Francis Wyndham. His daughter (with Iris Bennett) was the writer and memorist Joan Wyndham.

List of paintings