Alexander Selkirk: the Real Life Robinson Crusoe (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 11" (330mm x 280mm)
Date: 1968
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: RainerCrusoe
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.
Lieutenant Alexander Selkirk left as a castaway on the tiny Pacific island of Juan Fernandez. The story of Selkirk's life on a desert island is thought to have inspired the famous novel Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe.
Original artwork for the illustration on p10 of Look and Learn no. 330 (11 May 1968).
- 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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