‘Mother and Cub’ by Leonard Pearman

Oil on canvas

Framed in a venner frame with gilded detail: 108cm x 88cm

A magnificent painting of a Polar Bear and cub in its natural environment, the vast and dramatic wilderness of the Arctic. Pearman was known for his realistic depictions of wildlife in their natural environments in Africa and the Arctic.

Pearman was British and was an instructor and pilot in the Royal Air Force during WWII. His plane was shot down and he spent 3 years in the infamous POW camp in Germany ‘Stalag Luft’ which was later immortalised in ‘The Great Escape’. After the war he studied at Malboroug School of Art and then dedicted his life to art and specifically this genre. He exhibited regularly at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Society of Wildlife Artists.