Charles Pears - Part 6

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 6 of a 6-part series on the works of Charles Pears:

Chapman Pile Lighthouse
n.d. oil on canvas 50.5 x 76.5 cm

n.d. Charles Pears at the wheel of his yawl "Wanderer" with his wife ahead of him in Juanita
oil on board 38 x 53.3 cm

n.d. Convoy assembling in Falmouth Roads
oil on canvas 51 x 92 cm

n.d. Great Western Railway Weymouth and the Channel Islands
colour lithograph poster 105 x 130 cm

n.d. H.M.S. 'Revenge' coming out of a squall
oil on canvas 75 x 60 cm

n.d. Harvesting
oil on canvas 38 x 56 cm

n.d. HMS 'Coventry' saving the hospital ship 'Aba' from destruction by German bombers
oil on canvas 101 x 126.5 cm
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

n.d. School's Done
watercolour on paper 20 x 24 cm

n.d. Lesson's Done
watercolour on paper 20 x 24 cm

n.d. Longships Lighthouse, Lands' End
oil on board 54.6 x 80 cm

n.d. Mauretania
oil on canvas 239 x 363 cm

n.d. Moonlit Barque
oil on canvas 102.3 x 127.6 cm

n.d. On Deck
monochrome oil on paper 43 x 29.5 cm

n.d. Open Water
oil on canvas 51 x 76.5 cm

n.d. Overdue
oil on canvas 51.1 x 61 cm

n.d. Pilot off the Needles
oil on canvas 79.5 x 112.3 cm

n.d. Sailing in open waters with a barque on the horizon
oil on canvas 51 x 76.5 cm

n.d. Salvaging the Wreck
oil on canvas 58.7 x 40 cm

n.d. Signalling for a Pilot
oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm

n.d. Southern Railway cargo steamer under attack from German aircraft during World War II
oil on canvas 80 x 113.4 cm
Science Museum Group Collection, London
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

n.d. Stormy Seas
oil on canvas 51 x 76.5 cm

n.d. Surrender of U-111 to the Trawler 'Lady Shirley'
oil on canvas 81.7 x 127.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. The bombing of 'The British Chancellor', 10 July 1940
oil on canvas 80 x 125 cm
Falmouth Art Gallery, UK

n.d. The Boxer Revolution 
watercolour and gouache on paper 27 x 17.5 cm

n.d. The Crossing Sweepers (attributed to Pears)
oil (on?) 40 x 43.8 cm

n.d. The marvel of Mulberry; Normandy Landing, June 1944
oil on paper 31.8 x 53.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. The Navy's here (attributed to Pears)
oil (on?) 40 x  43.8 cm

n.d. The Needles, Isle of Wight
oil on canvas 38 x 59.5 cm
Gallery Oldham, UK

n.d. The Pool of London during Dockland Air Raids, 1940
oil on canvas 101 x 152 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

n.d. The Roadstead
oil on canvas 51 x 76.5 cm

n.d. There is no uninhabitable unnavigable (1)
oil on board 92 x 130 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

n.d. There is no uninhabitable unnavigable (2)
oil on board 92 x 130 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

n.d. There is no uninhabitable unnavigable (3)
oil on board 92 x 130 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

n.d. Three types of Iceberg
oil on board 13.9 x 46.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Visit the Dockyards Chatham, Portsmouth, Devonport - Southern Railway
colour lithograph poster

n.d. WW1 'Aurora' and 'Ardiel' taking mines aboard at Grangemouth
coloured chalk on toned paper 55.8 x 78.8 cm
Imperial War Museum
© IWM Art.IWM ART 1057

WW1 An Officer of an ML about to board a Norwegian Steamer
oil on panel 21.5 x 25.4 cm
Imperial War Museum, London
© IWM Art.IWM ART 1049

n.d. WW1 Plan for the Pageant of Surrender: Proposal for a large four-panel picture
coloured ink 17.1 x 49.5 cm
Imperial War Museum, London
© IWM Art.IWM ART 1666

n.d. WW1 Submarine K7
chalk on paper 14.9 x 46.1 cm
Imperial War Museum, London
© IWM Art.IWM ART 1054

n.d. WW1 The lights of Rosyth from the Forth Bridge footpath. Port Edgar and the Fleet
oil on canvas 71.1 x 91.4 cm
Imperial War Museum, London
© IWM Art.IWM ART 631

n.d. WW2 San Demetrio gets home
(for Post Office Savings Bank)
lithograph and letterpress on paper 77 x 50.6 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL