Treasure In The Tower (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 8" (290mm x 195mm)
Date: 1973
Code: DearTreasure
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
The Treasure Hunters: Doubloons on Your Doorstep. Among the four men in the cart rumbling towards the gallows was John Barkstead, reputed to have buried a fortune inside the Tower of London.
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 578 (10 February 1973).
- 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.