Emperor Charlemagne The Teacher (Original)

Emperor Charlemagne The Teacher art by Jack Keay

Emperor Charlemagne The Teacher (Original)


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Artist: Jack Keay
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12" x 9" (300mm x 220mm)
Date: 1974
Code: KeayJackSOF2b

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Jack Keay.

The great French King Charlemagne, the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Not only a great politician and military leader; here we see him addressing the sons of nobles in one of the schools that he established. He heard one day that a particular class had not been paying attention to their work, he went himself and lambasted them for their idleness.

Originally published in Look and Learn issue 664, 5th October 1974.
  • 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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