The Death of Bishop John Fisher (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 14" (340mm x 350mm)
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: RainerAxemanLL
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Paul Rainer.
They Gave Their Lives: The Bishop's Belief. In 1534, John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for angering Henry VIII, refusing to state that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was illegal. He was beheaded in 1535.
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 470 (16 January 1971).
- Artist BiographyPaul Rainer (Flourished 1950s and 1960s)
Paul Rainer, an illustrator about whom not much is known. We know he was active in the 1950s in Everybody's Magazine, and in the 1960s contributed to both Bible Story and Look and Learn.
He illustrated a couple of series in Look and Learn including 'People and Plants' in 1966, the excellent 'Who Said...?' in 1967 and various others in 1968-69. Before that, he was one of the regular illustrators for Bible Story, illustrating 'The Story of the Life of Jesus' (1964).
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