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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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D-Day by Chris Collingwood. June 6th 1944 allied troops land in Normandy, here assault troops of the South Lancashire Regiment of the British 3rd Infantry Division storm ashore at sword beach. |
Advance on Vittoria by Chris Collingwood. The 13th Light Dragoons cross a small river as part of Wellingtons armies advance on Vittoria in June 1813 during the Peninsula Campaign. |
British 9th Lancer c.1914 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
General Erwin Rommel with the Africa Korps before the Battle for Tobruk by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Blue Bonnets - Highlanders c.1746 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Officer and Bugler, 17th Lancers, Balaclava by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Drummer and Infantryman, Cameron Highlanders c.1890 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
A Mother of the American Civil War by Chris Collingwood (P) No text for this item |
Battle of Barnet by Chris Collingwood. The Battle of Barnet was fought in a heavy mist, on Easter Sunday 14th April 1471. Due to a misalignment of the opposing armies, all became confusion. The centre of the battle (as depicted here) was fought at close quarters, a mass of struggling knights and men at arms with comrade fighting comrade, their vision of the battle obscured by mist. The Yorkists under the leadership of King Edward IV triumphed, leaving the Lancastrians with hopes dashed. Their champion and leader, the great Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick The King Maker lay dead, cut down while struggling to regain his charger. In the painting Edward IV charges toward the banner of Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, while in the foreground soldiers of the Houses of York and Lancaster hack and slash at each other in terrified butchery. |
Sons of Odin by Chris Collingwood. A Viking raiding party comes ashore from their Viking longboat on the western coast of England, 890 A.D. |
Brother Against Brother by Chris Collingwood. The American Civil War saw not only the split between north and south but also even between family members. |
Skinners Horse 1904 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Piper, 72nd Regiment c.1856 by Chris Collingwood. The 72nd regiment (The Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) fought with the Highland Brigade at Sevastopol during the Crimean war (1854-56) and in the Central India campaign during the Indian Mutiny (1857-59). In 1863, it took part in the Umbeyla Expedition on the North West Frontier. The regiment fought in the Second Afghan War (1878-80) at Peiwar Kotal (1878), Charasiah (1879), Kabul (1879) and Kandahar (1880). In 1881 the regiment was amalgamated with the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment (Ross-shire Buffs) to form The Seaforth Highlanders. The image is of Pipe-Major Macdonald, in 1858 |
Helping Hand, Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Man at Arms, 1461 by Chris Collingwood (P) No text for this item |
Red Square by Chris Collingwood. The 2nd Battalion centre company 1st Regiment of Foot Guards under attack from the French Red Lancers at Waterloo, 18th June 1815. |
Cape Mounted Rifles against Shakas Zulu Impis c.1827 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The 95th Rifle Brigade at the Battle of Fuentes De Onoro, 5th May 1811 by Chris Collingwood. The Duke of Wellington was blockading the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo with 32,000 troops. The French sent a force of 45,000 troops under Marshal Andre Massena to relieve the fortress. Wellington took up a strong position at Fuentos DOnoro and the French attacked on May 5th with superior numbers. The British army held their ground with the cost of 1,500 casualties, the French suffered higher losses of 2,200 troops and finally withdrew. The Duke of Wellington quickly seized Almeida. |
To the Meallie Bags, Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
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