Charles Pears (1873-1958) was a marine painter and lithographer, born at Pontefract, Yorkshire. Pears worked initially as a black-and-white artist for magazines from the late 1890s, serving as a theatrical caricaturist for Pick-Me-Up. During World War I he was an Official War Artist for the Admiralty, a position he repeated during World War II, and he gradually established a reputation as a sound marine painter with a strong sense of design. He was founder and first president of the RSMA and his work found its way into the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Imperial War Museum. However, as a versatile draughtsman he also did many posters and illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1922, and the works of Charles Dickens. He wrote a number of books, such as From the Thames to the Seine, 1910, and South Coast Cruising from the Thames to Penzance, 1931.He exhibited widely, including the RA, ROI and Fine Art Society. He lived in St. Mawes, Cornwall.
This is part 4 of a 6-part series on the works of Charles Pears:
1927 Southend colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1927 Southend-on-Sea, Underground, L.M.S. and L.N.E Railways colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1928 Bombay colour lithograph poster 102 x 152 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1928 Suez Canal (Empire Marketing Board) colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1928 Winter Scene: Ice Skating colour lithograph poster (proof) 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
c1928 Herring Packing colour lithograph 99 x 150 cm |
c1929 Launching of the Empress of Scotland oil on canvas 71.1 x 91.5 cm |
1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here) colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum |
1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here) colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum |
1929 Southend: Crowstone Light colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here) colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 Cheap Day Return Tickets colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 Gibraltar colour lithograph poster The Empire Marketing Board |
1930 Southend - Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 The Film-lover travels Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 The Musician travels Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 The Playgoer travels Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1930 To See the Crews in Training - Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
c1930 Filey for the Family L.N.E.R. colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm Science Museum Group, London |
c1930 Llandudno on the Sunny North Wales Coast colour lithograph poster101.6 x 127 cm |
c1930 Southend-on-Sea colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm |
1931 Eat More Fish colour lithograph poster 102 x 142.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1935 Eat More Fish colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1935 Eat More Fish colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1931 Rahere - An Historical Pageant-Play colour lithograph poster 101.2 x 63.3 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1932 All Hallows Berkyngechirche by the Tower Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1932 Cathedral church of St Saviour, Southwark London Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1932 Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1932 London, Piccadilly Circus oil on canvas 101.8 x 64.2 cm Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum |
1932 Southend-on-Sea by Underground L.M.S. & L.N.E. Railways colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1933 Greenwich by Tramways colour lithograph poster 152.4 x 101.6 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1933 Port of London by Tramways colour lithograph poster 152.4 x 101.6 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1934 Southend-on-Sea by Underground, LMS & L.N.E Railways colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
before 1935 A Good Dinner is a Fish Dinner - Eat More Fish colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 A Ship for Canada in a United Kingdom Shipyard colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 Apples and Honey from Canadian Orchards colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 Canadian Apples for the United Kingdom colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 Herring Drifters in the North Sea colour lithograph 51 x 76 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 The Suez Canal colour lithograph on paper 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
before 1935 There's all the health of the sea in fish colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
1935 Brighton and Hove colour lithograph poster 99 x 125 cm |
1935 London & Isle of Wight Railway Air Services & Spartan Air Lines colour lithograph poster (size not given) |
1935 Penmaenmawr, North Wales - Travel by LMS colour lithograph poster 101.5 x 63.5 cm |
1935 Southend-on-Sea - Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1935 Twickenham, Walton, Windsor - London Transport colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
1935 Twickenham, Walton, Windsor - London Transport original artwork |
c1935 Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-on-Sea Travel by Rail colour lithograph poster 125 x 100.7 cm |
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