The English Pub by Jacques Laudy, Hergé's friend 1938

Superb watercolor depicting the English pub, 1930s period.
Jacques Laudy, born April 7, 1907 in Schaerbeek (province of Brabant) and died July 28, 1993 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels-Capital Region), was a Belgian painter and cartoonist, author of the Hassan and Kaddour series and of comic strip adaptations of literary works such as Les Quatre fils Aymon, Rob Roy and David Balfour. This classic cartoonist, perpetuating a style of illustrative graphics inspired by Arthur Rackham and Anton Pieck, was one of the founders of Tintin magazine in 1946, along with Hergé, Jacques Van Melkebeke, Edgar P. Jacobs and Paul Cuvelier.
His good looks inspired Edgar P. Jacobs to create the character of Francis Blake in the Blake and Mortimer comic strip series.
Jacques Laudy was born on April 7, 1907 in Schaerbeek, a commune of Brussels. Jacques Laudy comes from a family of painters.
His father Jean Laudy, originally from the Netherlands, was a well-known draughtsman and painter, one of the official portraitists of Albert I and the Belgian royal family, and his mother Hélène Demoulin was also a painter and watercolorist.