Dinner Is Served (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Frank Marsden Lea
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 7" (280mm x 180mm)
Date: 1965
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: LeaHenry8

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

King Henry VIII having been thrown to the ground by King Francis I. The servant remarks: "Your Majesties, dinner is served.".

Francis I of France met Henry VIII of England on the so-called Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. No sooner had they met than Henry challenged the French King to a wrestling match which Francis promptly won.

The servant announcing dinner probably saved the two countries from an ugly diplomatic incident.

Original art published in Look and Learn issue 170, 17 April 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.