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Cranston Fine Arts  Military Art and Artists Featured Current Military Artists  Chris Collingwood |
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| Chris Collingwood |
Chris has produced a wealth of impressive paintings from the Napoleonic War, American Civil War, English Civil War, and a variety of Portraits of Great Military Leaders, He also has produced superb paintings of Pirates, a particular favourite of his. Chris studied at Berkshire College of Art 1966 - 1970 and then worked for Halas and Batchelor as a background artist. In the golden age of book cover illustration Chris made the Gunslinger, Crow and Herne series his own. To this day the shelves of high street booksellers are full of his work. Perhaps his best known popular pieces are in the now famous Jorvik Centres paintings which form the focus of the exhibitions promotion and won a travel industry award. In recent years his best work has been paintings, such as SPQR, Anne Bonny, Mary Reid and Calico Jack Rakam and Blackbeard in Damnation Seize My Soul. His super realistic style, using oils, brilliantly reflects the techniques, passion and depth of the old masters. He has a particular love of portraiture, which his portraits of Wellington and William of Orange certainly reflect, along with others from the English Civil War, his love of the subject. He is also fascinated by the awful romance of weaponry and war. Chris uses traditional Dutch paints made today, as in 1664, and is meticulous in his research and attention to detail, so scarce in our modern throw away society. Sir Anthony Van Dyke, William Dobson, Sir Peter Lely and Fortunio Matania played a vital part in his formative years. He also is much influenced by Meissonier and De Neuville. |
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Trumpeter, 17th Lancers by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Stand Firm the 24th (Rorkes Drift) by Chris Collingwood. During the battle for Rorkes Drift, 24th Warwickshires man the improvised ramparts of the inner barricade as the Zulu attack reaches its height. |
Fire from the Fens, c.1071 by Chris Collingwood. In the year 1070, Saxon England lay under Norman oppression. Only one last centre of resistance remained. The Isle of Ely in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Here, Hereward Leofricson, son of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, emerged as a warrior leader. Struggling against overwhelming odds in his defiance of the Normans. The legend of Hereward the Wake was born. |
95th Rifles by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Roman War Machine by Chris Collingwood. A Centurion orders the formation of a shield wall. |
Cavalry 1643 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Oliver Cromwell by Chris Collingwood. Oliver Cromwell born1599 to his father Robert Cromwell, and his mother Elizabeth Steward Cromwell. This painting of Cromwell shows him at the age of 50. From his humble beginnings he became a military leader second to none during the civil war. He was the creator of the Ironsides and was Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658. Many think of him today as a visionary political leader. He died due to a recurring illness on 3rd September 1658. |
Centurian by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson by Chris Collingwood. Stonewall Jackson with the Stonewall Brigade during the Valley Campaign of 1862. |
6th Inniskilling Dragoon by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Badajoz by Chris Collingwood (P) No text for this item |
Original pencil drawing by Chris Collingwood produced on art board. (P) No text for this item |
Richard III by Chris Collingwood. Richard Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), after the Battle of Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471. Banners are of Richard Duke of Gloucesters White Boar and Sir John Stafford Of Mordaunts (created Earl of Wiltshire by Edward IV) coat of arms. |
Texas Ranger c.1840s by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Storm of Steel by Chris Collingwood. Passchendaele 1917. Imperial German Infantry 6th Reserve Division 11th Battalion at the third battle of Ypres. |
British Lancer by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Iron Brigade, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Brawner's Farm, August 1862 by Chris Collingwood. The Iron Brigade initially consisted of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiments, the 19th Indiana, Battery B of the 4th U.S. Light Artillery, and was later joined by the 24th Michigan. This particular composition of men, from the three Western states, led it to be sometimes referred to as the 'Iron Brigade of the West'. They were known, throughout the war, as the 'Black Hats', because of the black, 1858 model Hardee hats issued to Army regulars, rather than the blue kepis worn by most other Union Army units. Battle of Second Manassas, Brawner's Farm, August 28, 1862. In order to draw Pope's army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28. In a fierce firefight in which the opposing lines were scarcely 100 yards apart, Jackson's men locked horns with the Midwesterners of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade, known thereafter as the Iron Brigade. The fight at the Brawner Farm lasted several hours and resulted in a stalemate. Convinced that he had trapped Jackson. Pope concentrated the bulk of his army against him. On August 29th, Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson's position along an unfinished railroad grade. The attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties on both sides. At noon, Longstreet arrived on the field from Thoroughfare Gap and took position on Jackson's right flank. On August 30th, Pope renewed his attacks, seemingly unaware that Longstreet was on the field. When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault by Fitz John Porter's command, Longstreet's wing of 28,000 men counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war. The Union left flank was crushed and the army driven back to Bull Run. Only an effective Union rearguard action prevented a replay of the First Manassas disaster. Pope's retreat to Centreville was precipitous, nonetheless. The next day, Lee ordered his army in pursuit. This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. |
The Defence of La Haye-Sainte, 18th June 1815 by Chris Collingwood. The garrison under the command of Major G Baring consisted of the 2nd Light Battalion of the 2nd Brigade Kings German Legion and reinforced by two Nassau companies. Here Major Baring is seen leading his Legion against Quiots Brigade (54th and 55th of the line) |
Stormd at with Shot and Shell, 17th Light Dragoons (Lancers) Oct 25 1854 at Balaclava by Chris Collingwood. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyd and thunderd, Stormd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred. The following is part of a letter from an officer of the Light Brigade who was camped near Balaclava on October 27th: ...there was no hesitation: down our fellows went at a gallop, through a fire in front and on both flanks, which emptied our saddles and knocked over our horses by scores. I do not think that one man flinched in the whole brigade, though every one allows that so hot a fire was hardly ever seen. |
British Tommy, 1916 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Found and Lost by Chris Collingwood. After the Battle of Roundway Down 13th July 1643, a grief stricken girl meets her true love all too briefly for the last time. |
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