Bertrand du Guesclin (Original)

Bertrand du Guesclin art by Jack Keay
Bertrand du Guesclin art by Jack Keay

Bertrand du Guesclin (Original)

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Artist: Jack Keay
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 6" x 8" (160mm x 200mm)
Date: 1974
Code: KeayduGuesclin

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Jack Keay.

Sir Bertrand du Guesclin was one of the most famous of French knights yet as a young boy he was considered so ugly that his mother would not let him sit at the main table in the family home.

Although at one time captured by the English Black Prince he proved to be a thorn in the side of the English in their struggle to maintain their lands in France.
  • Artist Biography
    Jack "John" Edwin Keay (10 May 1907 - 1999; King's Norton, UK)
    Artist who contributed a variety of illustrations and covers to Look and Learn. When he signed his work, it was usually as “Jack Keay”. Jack Keay was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, on 10 May 1907. Little is known about Keay's career, but he was a popular book cover artist who worked for Pan, Panther, Hutchinson, Fontana and Four Square in the 1957-62 period.

    Keay illustrated a number of books in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Change of Life by Muriel E. Landau (1971), Gunfighters of the Wild West by Eric Inglefield (1978), American Civil War by Philip Clark (1988), American War of Independence by Philip Clark (1988) and Viking Explorers by Rupert Matthews (1989). He died in Hounslow, London, in 1999, aged 92.

    Jack Keay is not to be mistaken for John R. Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.
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