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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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Roman Pilum by Chris Collingwood. The pilum was thrown just as the legionaries charged. The small bullet shaped metal point could penetrate shields and armour and cause serious injury to the enemy. |
Broadsword Charge on Brown Bess by Chris Collingwood. Camerons and Stuarts attack the centre and flank of Barrells Regiment (4th Foot) at the Battle of Culloden. |
East European Mercenary by Chris Collingwood. Part of a series of seven English Civil War uniform stuies. |
Charles II 1630-1685 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Yorkist Soldier by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Battle of Worcester, 3rd September 1651 by Chris Collingwood. Charles II rides out to lead his army. Including many Scots who fought on his side. |
British Army Javelin Missile Launcher by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Infantry 1643 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
S.A.S. , Oman, 1972 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
SPQR (For the People of Rome) by Chris Collingwood. Depicting Legio II Augusta, 1st Century AD, (showing a Legionary, Centurian and a Conucen Trumpeter) |
Original art for the poster of the film The Big Red One starring Lee Marvin by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Worst Scrape - Retreat from Burgos October/November 1812 by Chris Collingwood. After a major victory at Salamanca (22 July 1812) Wellington occupied Madrid and then advanced to capture Burgos - unfortunately with insufficient siege equipment he was compelled to retire and forced to experience a harrowing retreat, it was, he said The worst scrape. However, when the campaigning season ended, Spain, south of the Tagus, was free of the French. |
S.A.S. British Columbia by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Original art work for the book A Time of War Vol II, Come Evil Days by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
British Paratrooper 2002 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Comanche Warrior c.1840s by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Might of the Roman Empire by Chris Collingwood. X Gemina - Roman Optio in command of an auxiliary cohort preparing a defensive line against Germanic invader c.148 AD. |
Samurai Warriors by Chris Collingwood. Samurai Warriors of the Sekighahara campaign 1600. The most important and decisive battle in the history of Japan, Sekigahara was the culmination of the Power struggle triggered by the death of the great warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The two rivals for power were Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The contest was ultimately settled by force of arms in a small mountain valley in central Japan. By the end of the day 40,000 heads had been taken and Ieyasu was master of Japan. Within three years the Emperor would grant him the title he sought - Shogun. |
Battle of Waterloo by Chris Collingwood. Officer and men of the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, flanked by the 95th Rifle Regiment at the turning point of the Battle of Waterloo 18th June 1815. |
Roman Legionary by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Incident on the Peninsula by Chris Collingwood. British 15th Light dragoons (and Hussars) and 16th Light Dragoons engage the French 1st Provincial Chasseurs during the Peninsula War |
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