Artist: Paul Rainer Medium: Watercolour on Board Size: 18" x 12" (445mm x 300mm) Date: 1967 Signature: Signed by artist bottom centre Code: RainerNapoleon
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.
Who said? "Every French soldier carries the baton of a marshal of France in his knapsack." This was Napoleon's way of encouraging his troops by telling them if they had the ability they could rise through the ranks of his Grand Army.
Paul Rainer (Flourished 1950s and 1960s) Paul Rainer, an illustrator about whom not much is known. We know he was active in the 1950s in Everybody's Magazine, and in the 1960s contributed to both Bible Story and Look and Learn.
He illustrated a couple of series in Look and Learn including 'People and Plants' in 1966, the excellent 'Who Said...?' in 1967 and various others in 1968-69. Before that, he was one of the regular illustrators for Bible Story, illustrating 'The Story of the Life of Jesus' (1964).
Artist: William Francis MarshallMedium: Pen & Ink Wash on BoardSize: 13" x 13" (340mm x 340mm)Date: 1975Signature: Signed by artist bottom leftCode: ...
Artist: Patrick NicolleMedium: Watercolour on BoardSize: 9" x 9" (240mm x 240mm)Date: 1971Code: NicolleNapoleonThis is the unique original Watercolour...
Artist: Cecil DoughtyMedium: Gouache on BoardSize: 13" x 12" (330mm x 295mm)Date: 1974Signature: Signed by artist bottom rightCode: DoughtyNapoleonLL...