A Bit of Bronze (Signed) (Original)

Artist: William Francis Marshall
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 16" (280mm x 410mm)
Date: 1973
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: MarshallBronze

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by William Francis Marshall.

A moving scene, expertly painted, depicting the winner of The Victoria Cross "For Valour" Francis Marshall (1901-1980) attended by a nurse, with a battlefield montage in the background.

An original painting used for the cover of Argosy magazine in March 1973 to illustrate the story "A Bit of Bronze" by Charlotte Hunt.

• Artist Biography

  William Francis Marshall (1901 - 1980)
  Francis Marshall studied at Slade before entering the world of advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a 10-year relationship with Condé Nast, drawing for Vogue. In 1959 he wrote a successful book on drawing entitled Magazine Illustration.