Beau Brummel (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 16" x 11" (406mm x 279mm)
Date: 1967
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: RainerBeau
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Paul Rainer.
Who Said...? "Who's Your Fat Friend?" Beau Brummell, about the Prince Regent (later George IV) in 1812. Lovely expressions all round.
This is the original artwork for illustration on p3 of Look and Learn issue no 272 (1 April 1967). One of a series of illustrations for "Who Said?".
- 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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