Hudson Bay Company - Tough Life in the Far North (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 7" (260mm x 170mm)
Date: 1973
Code: DearRescue
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
John Scott is rescued by other servants of the Hudson Bay Company who worked out of the remote Fort Albany after getting lost in a snow storm.
He was a young bricklayer who had gone hunting with the fort's gunsmith. He was lucky to survive albeit with bad frostbite. The gunsmith Tom Tollier died in the frozen waste and his body was about to become a meal for a Grey Wolf when it was discovered.
Part of the series Outposts of the Empire this artwork was published in Look and Learn issue 580, 24th 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.
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