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Jack Spurling (1870 – 31 May 1933) was an English painter noted for nautical themes, particularly sailing ships of the 19th and 20th centuries. HistoryJohn Robert Charles "Jack" Spurling was the son of an importer and grew up near the London docks, where he learned to sketch as a pastime. At the age of 16 he first went to sea as an apprentice aboard Astoria. His life nearly ended when he fell from the main upper topsail yard to the deck, he instead spent six months in a Singapore hospital.[1] He gained his second mate's certificate after some years aboard one of Devitt & Moore's sail training vessels, and around the same time learned the art of watercolor painting, and was soon receiving commissions from other seafarers. He finished his life at sea as a sailor with the Blue Anchor line of steamers.[1] Spurling's second love was the stage, and promising career as an actor but success as a painter intruded: In 1921 he met Frederick Arthur Hook (died 1935), editor of The Blue Peter: The Magazine of Sea Travel, Price 1/-,[2] a magazine for sailing enthusiasts. Hook purchased much of Spurling's portfolio of work, and contracted him to supply artwork for the covers of his magazine, the first being the issue of March 1923.[3] BibliographySpurling's artwork for The Blue Peter was collected in three volumes, all with artwork by Spurling, text by Basil Lubbock and edited by F. A. Hook:
References1. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17011551 |title=Mr. Jack Spurling |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=29,873 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 September 1933 |accessdate=13 April 2017 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Spurling, Jack}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.conradfirst.net/view/periodical?id=51|title=The Blue Peter (London, UK)|publisher=Conrad First: The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive|accessdate=13 April 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spurlingandrouxwatercolours.com/index.html|title=Ship Portraits — the paintings of Jack Spurling |author1=Roy Fernandez|author2=Jack Spurling|accessdate=13 April 2017}} 4 : English watercolourists|British marine artists|1870 births|1933 deaths |
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