Young Shakespeare (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 14" (350mm x 350mm)
Date: 1964
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: DearCaught
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Neville Dear.
The young Shakespeare, caught red-handed while poaching, had to flee Stratford until the hue and cry died down. Note the faces of the two men holding young Will are paste ups. Probably likenesses of people known to the artist.
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 106 (25 January 1964).
- 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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