1970s Original Bank Note Art - D Series £50 Pound SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

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Print of original artwork used on the £50 D Series (70s / 80s) Banknote Historical figures used on the reverse of the first portrait Bank notes produced by the Bank of England "Master portrait of Sir Christopher Wren by Harry Eccleston OBE, created from contemporary portraits by JB Clostermann 1695 and Sir Gefforey Kneller 1711 for the reverse of the £50 note issued from 1981" HARRY ECCLESTON Bank of England artist Harry Norman Eccleston, OBE (21 January 1923—30 April 2010) was an artist from Coseley, West Midlands, England. He was the first full-time artist and designer of banknotes at the Bank of England He trained at Bilston school of art, and in 1939, Birmingham college of art, then later, after Royal Navy service in WW2 at the Royal college of art, He produced paintings and etchings of the industrial landscape of the Black country He joined the Bank of England in 1958 as their first in-house artist-designer, and was the designer of the "D" series of British Bank Notes — the first pictorial notes. They featured Issac Newton(£1), The Duke of Wellington (£5), Florence Nightingale (£10), William Shakespeare (£20) and Christopher Wren (£50). The notes were issued in 1970 and in use until 1981. He retired from the Bank of England in 1983. He was made OBE in 1979. In 2003 he was given an honorary doctorate of arts, by the University read more

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