Surprise Attack! (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12" x 16" (315mm x 410mm)
Date: 1968
Code: DearFightLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
"Here was the action the young officer craved! As the Malay pirate lunged forward to kill his defenceless prisoners, Trelawny leaped at him and locked him in a grip of iron."
Scene from the adventures of privateer Edward John Trelawney in the Indian Ocean.
From Look and Learn 28th of September 1968.
- Artist BiographyNeville Dear; UK
A prolific artist for Look and Learn, illustrating a wide variety of historical subjects and various series including 'Disasters That Shook the World' (1963), 'By the Rivers of Babylon' (1964), 'They Made Headlines' (1964), 'Epic Stories of the Iron Road' (1965) and others. In 1949, Dear and two other students from the Royal College of Art were commissioned to decorate the walls of the children's section of the Chelsea Public Library.
In the 1950s he began producing illustrations for William Collins, including work for Collins' Magazine, Collins Boys' Annual and books, including Showell Styles' 'Tiger Patrol' series.
As well as his magazine illustrations for Look and Learn, Ranger, Argosy, Picture Post and others, Dear also worked for Oxford University Press, Wheaton, Hodder & Stoughton, Corgi, and Eyre Methuen. With others he illustrated The Hamlyn Bible for Children (1974) and he was a regular illustrator for Reader's Digest's condensed books.