Artist: Wilfred Plowman Medium: Watercolour on Board Size: 30" x 22" (760mm x 555mm) Date: 1979 Signature: Signed by artist bottom right Code: PlowmanHuntLL
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Wilfred Plowman.
James Hunt in his Marlboro McLaren M23 leads the pack during the Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo 1977. Race of a Thousand Corners. The Monaco Grand Prix.
Original artwork from Look and Learn Book 1980.
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Wilfred Plowman (1929 - 2015; Leicester, UK) Wilf Plowman was a prolific and accomplished artist and illustrator whose work secured an international reputation – and Royal approval at home.
Born in Leicester, he attended the city's college of art before heading for the Central School of Art in London and the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris.
After working for many years as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director, he moved to Devon in 1967 to concentrate on painting.
He spent two years as an art lecturer at the South Devon Art and Technology College in Newton Abbot and Torquay, then 22 years as a part-time art lecturer in Exeter.
Despite his teaching commitments, his output of work has been prolific — and the Royal Family are a favourite subject.
The Royal Family at Work and at Play depicts the Queen, Prince Philip in his carriage, Prince Charles playing polo and Princess Anne riding. They are also shown engaged in public duties — Trooping the Colour, laying wreaths at the Cenotaph and Prince Charles and Princess Diana meeting the ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Saad-Al-Saba.
He recalled: “I am quite a royalist. I like the Royal Family, they are wonderful people.”
He said: "I was commissioned by Sheik Saad-Al-Saba to do a painting for him. The equerry to the Sheik called me from Kuwait. I could hardly believe it. He said the Sheik would be interested in seeing paintings I had done with the possibility of doing a portrait of himself and his wife. He had seen a photograph of the painting of the Royal Family which included him.
"I was just about to go out to Kuwait when it got invaded, so that put an end to that episode.
Prince Philip bought a painting of himself driving a coach and four, which he heard about after it was exhibited at the Bicton Horse Trials. He invited Wilf to Buckingham Palace and decided he wanted to buy it.
Princess Anne bought a painting of herself horse racing at Epsom.
The sale of prints of Prince Anne's painting raised many thousands of pounds for Save the Children. Prince Charles playing polo made an appearance in many paintings.
Other pictures commemorate wartime achievements — Spitfires and Hurricanes flying over English countryside and Formula 1 Grand Prix. Starlight Attack depicts the 1982 assault on Two Sisters in the Falklands by 45 Commando. Others, like Three-Ring Circus, are more lighthearted.
In 2011 he said he felt he was coming to the end of his “painting life” and sold many of his paintings to raise money for charity.
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