Captain Thompson and the Golden Madonna (Original)
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Size: 7" x 16" (190mm x 395mm)
Date: 1972
Code: DearMadonnaLL
This is the unique original Mixed Media art by Neville Dear.
Captain William Thompson organises the loading of a gold Madonna and much other treasure on board his ship the Mary Dear. He was supposed to be helping the Spanish official of Lima safeguard the treasures but soon became as gold crazed as his crew. They killed the guards and buried the treasure - unfound to this day on the Cocos Island.
This all happened in 1821/2 and he was the third "pirate" to conceal treasure on the island and never be able to collect the ill-gotten gains.
Original art from Look and Learn issue 572 30th December 1972.
- 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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