The Sailor and the Boxers (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 15" x 13" (390mm x 330mm)
Date: 1968
Code: DearBoxers
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
A wonderful painting by Neville Dear of an exciting moment in the life of Captain John Jellicoe. He was injured in the Boxer Rebellion in China.
It was only 34 years later while he was Commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War One that he was X-Rayed and a Boxer bullet found in his lung. He went on to become Governor of New Zealand.
From Look and Learn 341 (27 July 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.
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