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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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Samurai Warrior by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
US soldiers during winter in the Korean War by Chris Collingwood. Painting commissioned for a major book publisher around 189 - 1990 for a novel cover. |
S.A.S., Indonesia 1967 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Vedette of the 13th Light Dragoons by Chris Collingwood. Scouts of the 13th Light Dragoons keep watch on the advancing French Army. |
Lt General Lord Wellington at Salamanca, 22nd July 1812 by Chris Collingwood. Background battle detail shows 15th Hussars in summer campaign dress. |
AD61 by Chris Collingwood. Cavalry and Legionaries (plus Auxiliary Hamian Archer) of the XIVth Legion. |
For King and Kingdom by Chris Collingwood. Depicts Royalist troops at an early stage of the war, readying for battle. Faces set with grim determination to fight and die for King and Kingdom. |
13th Light Dragoons at Windsor Castle by Chris Collingwood. (GL) No text for this item |
Major General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum c.1899 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Counter Charge of the 12th and 13th Light Dragoons by Chris Collingwood. Lord Uxbridge commits the Light Dragoons against the French Cuirassiers and Chasseurs, who are driven over the ridge and down the slope. This action happened many times during the battle. |
Richard I (The Lion Heart) During the 3rd Crusade by Chris Collingwood. Richard the Lionhearts tactical skills and military training played a substantial role in the capture of Acre in 1191 by the Crusaders. But Richard the Lionheart was ruthless and after the capture of the city he marched 2,700 Muslim soldiers onto the road of Nazareth and in front of the Muslim army positions, had them executed one by one. But Richard the Lionheart was up against a great leader in Saladin and the crusades did not always go his way. After he negotiated the Treaty of Jaffa with Saladin and secured the granting of special rights of travel around Palestine and in Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims, Richard the Lionheart started his journey back to England in 1192. He was shipwrecked, and captured by the German Emperor Henry VI, only being released after a 150,000 mark ransom was paid. This money was raised by taxes in England. |
AD43 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
British Paratroopers 2002 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Sir John Moore 1761 - 1809 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Roman Signifer AD43 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Buffalo Soldier by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
82nd Airborne by Chris Collingwood. Superb figure study of the 82nd Airborne in 1944. |
British Paratroopers 1943 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Fighting for a Foothold, 82nd Airborne at St Mere Eglise, 1944 by Chris Collingwood. During the morning of June 7th the 82nd Airborne were attacked by a mixed German battle group. Supported by 4th Division armour the Paratroopers and Glider troops repelled the attack which lasted most of the day. |
Grey Cover for Grey Rifles by Chris Collingwood. Confederate skirmishers of the 19th Virginia Volunteers take over behind a farmhouse during the early stages of the war 1861. |
Sabres and Dust by Chris Collingwood. British light cavalry and horsemen of Skinners Horse fight Pindarn and Maratha 1826. |
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