Death of a Prime Minister (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 9" x 9" (240mm x 225mm)
Date: 1970
Code: GreenDeathPMLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.
Spencer Percival remains the only Prime Minister of Great Britain to be assassinated. His killer, John Bellingham, had lived a life of disappointment, prison, bad luck and crime.
Eventually unhinged by his reversals he bought two pistols and determined to kill the Prime Minister in the Houses of Parliament.
His story was told in Look and Learn issue 462, 21st November 1970.
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- Artist BiographyHarry Green (born 1920; UK)
A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.
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