The English Pub Jacques Laudy The Friend Of Hergé Circa 1938

Superb watercolor which illustrates the English pub period of the 1930s.Jacques Laudy, born April 7, 1907 in Schaerbeek (province of Brabant) and died July 28, 1993 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels-Capital Region), is a painter. and a Belgian comic strip artist, author of the Hassan and Kaddour series and comic book adaptations of literary works such as Les Quatre fils Aymon, Rob Roy and David Balfour. This classic designer, perpetuating a genre of illustrative graphics inspired by Arthur Rackhamou Anton Pieck, is one of the founders of the journal Tintin in 1946 with Hergé, Jacques Van Melkebeke, Edgar P. Jacobs and Paul Cuvelier. His physique inspired Edgar P. Jacobs to play the character of Francis Blake in the comic book series Blake and Mortimer.Jacques Laudy was born on April 7, 1907 in Schaerbeek, a commune in Brussels1. Jacques Laudy came from a family of painters, his father Jean Laudy, originally from the Netherlands, was a renowned draftsman and painter, one of the official portraitists of Albert I and the Belgian royal family, and his mother Hélène Demoulin is also a painter and watercolorist2.