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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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Sir Walter Raleigh by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Zulu Warrior at Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
The Might of the Roman Legions by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Men of the British Navy During the Battle of Lake Erie 1813 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Rebel Advance by Chris Collingwood. Depicting the 5th Virginia Infantrymen advancing across open ground. |
Confederate Bugler by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
This Heroic Little Garrison, Defence of Rorkes Drift by Chris Collingwood. Men of the 24th of foot, or 2nd Warwickshire regiment (later in 1881 to become the South Wales Borderers) repel the massed Zulus attempting to smash through the mealie bag entrenchment. At the conclusion of the battle, hundreds of Zulus lay dead. According to official figures the British lost 25 men, 11 Victoria crosses were awarded. |
The Charge of the Red Lancers on Mercer's Troop of Royal Horse Artillery by Chris Collingwood. Waterloo - 18th June 1815. The Red Lancers made five separate attempts on the allied squares and batteries suffering heavy casualties but failing to break either. Mercer's artillery troop would not retire and served their guns continuously regardless of repeated attack. |
Testudo Formation by Chris Collingwood. The testudo was used to protect Roman soldiers from all sorts of missiles. Here, Legonaries are beginning to form the testudo to protect them from a hail of arrows. |
Major General George Armstrong Custer by Chris Collingwood. Major General George George Armstrong Custer by Chris Collingwood. At the Battle of Five Forks, April 1865. |
Stonewall brigade 1861 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Morituri Te Saluttant (For Those About to Die Salute You) by Chris Collingwood. Rome AD52, Gladiatorial Combat under the eyes of the Emperor Claudius (actual name, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero) a great supporter of the games. Seen are the Net and Trident fighter Retiarius matched with a more heavily armed Mirmillone, whilst in the background a successful Secutor seeks permission for the killing stroke. |
Black Brunswickers by Chris Collingwood. (GS) No text for this item |
Roman Legionary 1AD by Chris Collingwood. A Roman soldier was a well-trained fighting machine. He could march 20 miles a day wearing all his armour and equipment. |
Trooper, 11th Yorkshire Dragoon Company c.1901 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Forming the Shield Wall by Chris Collingwood. (P) Roman infantry form a defensive formation with shields and spears. |
Union Artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill., July 1862 by Chris Collingwood. On July 1st 1862 in Henrico County Virginia, the battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexters Farm, took place, The battle of Malvern Hill was last of six battles fought in seven days wich are known as the Seven Day battles of the Peninsula Campaign. Gen.Robert E Lee launched a series of assaults on the nearly impregnable Union troop position on Malvern Hill. The Confederate forces suffered more than 5,300 casualties without any success. Although the Union forces had won, Major George B McClellan withdrew from his strong position to entrench his army at Harrison Landing on the James River where the Union troops would be protected from the sea by Union Gunboats. |
Marines 1804 by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
The Roman IX Legion by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item |
Forward the Guns by Chris Collingwood. Officer and sergeant of the 17th Light Dragoons in charge of Indian Irregular Cavalry. |
Balearic Slinger by Chris Collingwood. Roman army auxiliary. It is said that a good slinger could propel his missile up to 400 metres, this being greater than the bow and arrow. |
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