William Edward Mayes (1861 – April 12, 1952) was an

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painter from Great Yarmouth,

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. His father was Master Mariner Captain John Mayes. He managed the Yarmouth Iron Works Foundry Co. Ltd. for over 20 years. He was a founding member of the "Yarmouth and Gorleston Art Society" in 1937. later known as the " Great Yarmouth and District Society of Artists." He attended the first meeting with C.A. Mellon as chairman. His primary medium was watercolour and most of his paintings are representational landscapes of

, particularly the Norfolk Broads,David Buckman, ''Artists in Britain since 1945''
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Goldmark Gallery (2006), page 141. in the style of fellow Broadlands painter Stephen John Batchelder. He died aged 91.

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