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Historical
Military Artist: Chris
Collingwood The
military art print company (incorporating Cranston Fine Arts) are proud to
offer these superb military paintings and military prints, historical art by military artist Chris
Collingwood, who is without doubt one of the leading military artists of
today.
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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 Centre's 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.
Chris's 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 new portraits of Wellington and
William of Orange certainly reflects 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
Chris's formative years. He also is much influenced by Meissonier and De
Neuville
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"Storm'd 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,
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd 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..."
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.
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.
Sun in Splendour by Chris Collingwood. Soldiers of the Yorkist cause c.1461. Crossbowman, Man at arms
and knight with the standard of the Sun in Splendour.
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