Artist: Dan Escott Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 9" x 13" (240mm x 320mm) Date: 1972 Signature: Signed by artist 3rd panel lower left Code: EscottRibbonsLL
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Dan Escott.
The top right panel originally included text which explains panel two a cavalry patrol scouting during the Boer War; panel three a soldier in the trenches during World War One and panels four British infantry in Northern France during World War II with air support from an R.A.F. Typhoon fighter. The ribbons are all general campaign medals.
Rear cover feature of Look and Learn issue #528 26th February 1972.
Dan Escott (3 December 1928 - 7 May 1987; Surrey, UK) Dan Escott wrote and drew many features which played to his strength and interest in heraldic and medieval illustration. He was a regular contributor to the From Then Till Now feature in Look and Learn as well as creating back cover series on flags of the world, national symbols of Britain and the Guilds of London amongst many others.
Escott was born in Surrey on 3 December 1928. He studied at Croydon School of Art where he first came in contact with the subject of heraldry. Discovering that he had a flair for heraldic illustration (he won the school's Arms and Armour drawing competition two years running), he joined the College of Arms as a trainee herald painter, designing heraldry for stained glass, wood carvings, ceramics, engravings, banners, flags and coins, and developing a strong, bold style which stood him well when he began producing illustrations for advertising. One of his best known works was a painting of the Battle of Crecy which was published in the Illustrated London News.
In 1967 he was invited to work at the Institute of Heraldry in Virginia for the US forces, designing many regimental and other insignia, including badges for the Washington DC Police Department. Returning to England in 1968, he continued to work as a book and magazine illustrator. After the dissolution of his first marriage to Barbara Mitchell, he married Wendy Manfield (née Thornborough) in 1983 and emigrated to Australia where he worked for the Australian Geographic. Escott died of cancer in Sydney on 7 May 1987, aged 58.
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