William Pitt the Elder (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Paul Rainer
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 16" x 11" (410mm x 270mm)
Date: 1967
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: RainerPitt

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.

Who Said...? "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms -- never -- never -- never!"

William Pitt at the House of Lords in November 1777. In leading the British to victory over the French, Canada and India had become British possessions. He was in conflict with King George III and his ministers over the harsh way they treated American colonists which led to the War of Independence.

Original artwork for illustration on p11 of Look and Learn issue no 271 (25 March 1967).

• Artist Biography
  Paul 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).