Segestes and his Daughter (Original)

Artist: F R Exell
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 6" x 9" (150mm x 240mm)
Date: 1973
Code: ExellSegestes

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

Segestes was a German who had been educated in Rome and was sent back to Germany to serve under the brutal governor Varus. Segestes told Varus several times that another German born Roman military leader Arminius was a traitor. Arminius did rebel and fought many actions again Varus and later Germanicus.

He earned Segestes personal hatred by getting Segestes daughter to elope with him. In this painting we see Segestes capturing his own daughter after the defeat of Arminius' troops.

Originally published in Look and Learn issue 587, 14th April 1973.

• 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.