The Death of William the Conqueror (Original)

Artist: F R Exell
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12" x 10" (310mm x 265mm)
Date: 1973
Code: ExellDeathWilliamCLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by F R Exell.

In summer 1087 a rather overweight William had been in the field attempting to capture the town of Mantes, he appears to been thrown against the saddle and injured himself severely.

He died six weeks later and was buried at Caen in Normandy. He had been King of England twenty-one years.

Original artwork from a series that ran in Look and Learn in 1973 about the various invaders of England.

• Artist Biography
  F R Exell
  Not much is known about this accomplished book illustrator who appeared most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Exell illustrated the paperback editions of 'Moonfleet' by J Mead Falkner (1963 edition) and 'The Quarantine Child' by Geraldine Symons (published 1966) and illustrated the 'History's Heroes' feature for Look and Learn magazine in the 1970s.