Thomas Gainsborough (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Frank Marsden Lea
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 10" (330mm x 260mm)
Date: 1965
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: LeaGainsboroughLL

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Frank Marsden Lea.

Gainsborough in his Studio. Gainsborough mixed his oil paints with a lot of turpentine which has resulted in them fading over the years. He was in the habit of tipping excess turps off his pallet onto a heated brazier the results of which were likely to cause alarm to his portrait subjects.

Original artwork for illustration on p23 of Look and Learn issue no 183 (17 July 1965).

• Artist Biography
  Frank Marsden Lea (born 1910; UK)
  Frank Marsden Lea, born 1910. A talented artist and illustrator who, inter alia, designed posters for London County Council Tramways 1928-1932 and painted many illustrations for Look and Learn during the 1960s.
  
  He trained at the Nottingham Art School; 1916-1917 and also attended Manchester School of Art.