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 5 of a 6-part series on the works of Charles Pears:
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| 1936 King's Reach colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1936 London's Dockland colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1936 Southsea and Portsmouth - Southern Railway colour lithograph poster |
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| c1936 Southsea and Portsmouth original artwork oil on canvas 77.5 x 121.6 cm |
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| 1936 The Pool of London colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| c1936 The passenger Liner 'Queen Mary' arriving at Southampton, 27 March 1936 oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| before 1937 Moonlight Barque oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm The Collection: Art & Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery) © the artist's estate |
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| 1938 Now - To Ascot, Reading, Camberley by Southern Electric colour lithograph poster 101 x 63 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1938 Paignton, South Devon GWR colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm |
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| 1938 The Cambrian Coast, Miles of Glorious Sands colour lithograph poster GWR colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm |
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| 1938 The New Liner 'Orcades' Orient Line to Australia colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm V&A Museum, London |
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| c1939-45 Night Scene of Southern Railway Steamers as Hospital Ships during World War II oil on canvas 79.5 x 113 cm National Railway Museum, York |
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| c1939-45 Southern Railway Cargo Steamer under attack from German aircraft during World War II oil on canvas 79.8 x 113.2 cm National Railway Museum, York |
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| 1939-46 Battleship in Suez Canal, HMS 'Howe' oil and ink on board 33.6 x 61.9 cm The National Archives |
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| after 1940 The Jervis Bay Action, 5 November 1940 oil on canvas 76 x 152.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1940 Great Western Railway Steamer 'St Helier' evacuating troops, Dunkirk, 1 June 1940 oil on canvas 92.5 x 126.2 cm National Railway Museum, York |
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| 1940 Shelling of a British Convoy by the Germans from the French coast, 1940 oil on canvas 101.9 x 152.4 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 761 |
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| 1940 The Evacuation of St Nazaire oil on canvas 80 x 113 cm |
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| 1941 Handing over a convoy from American to British Escorts oil on canvas 80 x 152.4 cm Imperial War Museums © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 1487 |
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| 1942 A British Convoy on its way to Russia, 1942 oil on canvas 80.6 x 127 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 2682 |
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| 1942 A German searchlight across the English Channel, 1942 oil on canvas 81.2 x 127.6 cm © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 1916 |
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| 1942 The Convoy led by Admiral Vian fighting its way through to Malta oil on canvas 101.9 x 152.4 cm Imperial War Museums © Art.IWM ART LD 2175 |
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| 1943 The Norwegian Coast: Spring 1940 oil on canvas 101.9 x 152.4 cm Imperial War Museums © Art.IWM ART LD 662 |
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| c1943 Bombardment of Pantellaria, Italy, 11 June 1943 oil on canvas 80.9 x 127.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1943 Captain Sherbrook's Action, 31 December 1942 oil on canvas 40.5 x 76 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1944 Sinking of Great Western Railway Steamer 'St David' (converted to hospital ship) off Anzio, 24 January 1944 oil on canvas 92.9 x 126 cm National Railway Museum, York |
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| 1944-45 The 'Tirpitz' Attacked by Barracudas, 3 April 1944 oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1944-45 Convoy to Russia oil on canvas 81.3 x 127 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1944 Sinking of the 'Scharnhorst', 26 December 1943 oil on canvas 101.5 x 152.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1946 Sinking of GWR Steamer St. David oil on canvas 78 x 111.2 cm Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum |
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| c1946 Southern Railway steamer equipped as a hospital ship oil painting 80 x 113 cm Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum |
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| c1946 Southern Railway steamers as hospital ships awaiting the wounded while Dunkirk burns oil on canvas 80 x 113.2 cm Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum |
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| 1947 Hastings by Southern Railway colour lithograph poster 102 x 127 cm |
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| c1948 The Wandsworth Gas Company Collier 'Chessington' moving upstream on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament oil on canvas 81 x 127.2 National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1949 Isle of Man for Happy Holidays, Peel Castle - British Railways colour lithograph poster 100 x 63 cm |
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| 1949 Isle of Man for Happy Holidays, Peel Castle British Railways oil on canvas 101.8 x 63.7 cm National Railway Museum, York |
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| A Cutter in a heavy swell, a four-masted barque beyond oil on canvas 50.5 x 61cm |
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| n.d. A Glacier oil on board 32 x 52 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. A P&O Liner oil on canvas mounted on board 25.4 x 35.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. A ship and tug boat in a harbour at night oil on board 57 x 44 cm |
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| n.d. A Ship of the Queen Elizabeth Class oil on canvas 33.7 x 56 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Aboard a Minesweeping Trawler oil on canvas 38 x 62 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Aircraft Carriers in the Malta Convoy oil on canvas 81.3 x 127 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Beachy Head, East Sussex, Moonlight oil on canvas 33.5 x 54.5 cm Towner Gallery, Eastbourne |
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