A nude portrait of Sean Connery has been found amongst the unseen work of a Scottish artist. The painting was discovered by the relatives of Rab Webster, a Borders-based artist who passed away last month, and is believed to have been created when Webster was a student at Edinburgh College of Art, BBC News reports. Painted in , the oil on canvas was posed when the James Bond actor was working as an unknown life model. The husband of Webster's niece Nick Nihel said: "There were a few sketches of Sean Connery which are distributed among the family so to speak. Nihel added: "[Webster] said Connery treated it just as a job and that he didn't say very much. Type keyword s to search.
It was painted in when the aspiring actor was working as an unknown nude model for Edinburgh students. Connery, who is now 80, posed for students shortly before his acting breakthrough as the star of the James Bond films. The work, thought to be worth thousands of pounds, was painted by Rab Webster, a former art teacher at Selkirk High School in the Scottish Borders, who died last month aged
And judging from this recently unearthed canvas, set to go on display at a major exhibition - it's not hard to see why. A portrait of the celebrated Bond actor in a pair of skimpy trunks, painted before he was famous, will go on display at a major exhibition tomorrow. The picture was painted in , when Connery was just 22, by jazz musician Al Fairweather who was a student at Edinburgh College of Art. At that time Sir Sean, now 77, was in the peak physical condition that won him third place in the Mr Universe competition, and used to pose as a life model.