Artist: Andrew Howat Medium: Watercolour on Board Size: 9" x 7" (225mm x 170mm) Date: 1978 Code: HowatSchubert
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Andrew Howat.
Schubert accidentally pouring ink over his score of the song, The Trout. But all was not lost: he had made four copies and sent them to this friends. Two years later, the young composer incorporated the song into his famous "Trout" Quintet.
Original artwork for illustration on p27 of Look and Learn issue no 867 (26 August 1978).
Andrew Howat; Hale, UK Born in Hale, Cheshire, Howat studied life drawing, anatomy and painting at Manchester School of Art.
Andrew Howat has contributed a wide variety of work to Look and Learn. In the late 1970s, he was one of the key artists providing features on the rear cover, including the miscellaneous strip 'Strange Facts' and episodes of the 'Land of Legend' and 'Crowning Glory' series.
After his move to London he worked at a commercial studio before linking up with fellow artists Bob Robins and Gordon Davidson to produce illustrations for magazines and books. The trio often signed their work 'RDH'.
Howat later worked for various London advertising agencies as well as freelancing as a designer of greetings cards. He continues to design cards featuring landscapes and views of London as well as to paint landscapes in watercolour and pastel around London and Hertfordshire.
One of his paintings of the Palace of Westminster was used as a Christmas card by the House of Commons in 1999. He currently lives in north London.
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