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 3 of a 6-part series on the works of Charles Pears:
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| 1918 At work on a battleship at Rosyth: testing cables, at night by the light of a flare lamp oil on canvas 91.4 x 71.1 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1365 |
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| 1918 Big and Little: "HMS Glorious" and an ML. The island of Inchkeith under snow oil on panel 38.1 x 60.9 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 626. |
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| 1918 Camouflaged Merchant Steamer aground oil on paper 41.6 x 62.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1918 Dawn: Sending away Coastal Motor Boats, 11 August 1918 oil on canvas 58.4 x 129.5 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1918 German Star Shells: Men at the guns off the German coast, 11th August 1918 oil on canvas 66.6 x 107.9 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1356 |
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| 1918 HMS 'Fearless' oil on canvas 106.6 x 177.8 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1918 HMS Ullswater: A Destroyer torpedoed oil on canvas 58.4 x 129.5 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1918 North Queensferry Signal Station: the First Battle Cruiser Squadron seen from the Forth Bridge, Winter oil on canvas 50.8 x 60.9 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 627 |
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| 1918 Pay Night, Rosyth: Winter oil on canvas 58.4 x 129.5 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1355 |
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| 1918 Port Edgar, Firth of Forth, the Destroyer Base of the Northern Waters: Sunset, V-Class Destroyers backing out to sea oil on canvas 29.2 x 95.2 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1918 River Plate Pageant (on the Thames, London) oil on panel 41.9 x 64.7 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 5443 |
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| 1918 Rosyth. Light Cruiser Anchorage oil on canvas 29.2 x 95.2 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 628 a |
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| 1918 Rosyth: Fog obscuring the dockyard oil on panel 11.4 x 37.4 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 639 a |
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| 1918 Rosyth: Fog obscuring the Dockyard (detail) |
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| 1918 Rosyth. Light Cruiser anchorage oil on canvas 29.2 x 95.2 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART b |
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| 1918 The Action of 11th August 1918, Island of Borkum. Zeppelin falling: the Flagship is flying the signal: 'See Hymn 224. Verse 7' oil on canvas 85 x 110.4 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1357 |
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| 1918 The British submarine K22 in dry dock at Rosyth: Winter oil on canvas 106.6 x 177.8 cm © IWM Art.IWM ART 1359 |
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| 1918 The Gate Ship at Granton: Painted scarlet to indicate the port entrance through one of the barriers across the Firth oil on canvas 58.4 x 129.5 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1358 |
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| 1918 The German Fleet at Anchor off Inchkeith, Firth of Forth: After the surrender, 22 November 1918 oil on canvas 76.8 x 130.1 cm Imperial War Museum, London |
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| 1918 The Harwich Gate Ships, barrier, and Light Cruisers under searchlight oil on canvas 58.4 x 129.5 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1368 a |
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| 1918 The Harwich Gate Ships, Barrier, and Light Cruisers under Searchlight (detail) |
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| 1918 The Wake. HMS Courageous at top speed oil on canvas 50.8 x 60.9 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1370 |
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| 1919 HMS Courageous in dry dock, at Rosyth. Winter. oil on canvas 101.9 x 127 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 633 |
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| 1919 HMS Furious: Aerodrome Ship oil on canvas 101.9 x 177.8 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1629 |
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| 1919 Streaming the Paravanes: Paravanes enable a ship to go through mines in almost complete safety oil on canvas 101.9 x 127 cm Imperial War Museum, London © IWM Art.IWM ART 1232 |
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| c1919 Fry's Cocoa, The Prize Winner colour lithograph poster V&A Museum, London |
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| before 1920The Needles, Isle of Wight oil on canvas 38 x 59.5 cm Gallery Oldham, UK © The Artist's Estate |
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| 1921 Barking Reach by Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1921 Kingston by Tram from Wimbledon colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1921 Kingston by Tram from Wimbledon original artwork 74.7 x 53.5 cm © London Transport Museum collection |
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| 1921 Southend Through Trains Daily from District Railway Stations colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1921 Southend Through Trains Daily from District Railway Stations original artwork oil on paper 63.5 x 49.5 cm |
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| 1921 Staines by Motor Bus from Hounslow: General colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1921 Thorpe Bay, Southend colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1922 To Leigh-on-sea: the Chapman Light District Railway Trains colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1922 Untitled (harbour scene) colour lithograph poster 63.5 x 101.6 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1923 Off Cowes, 1923: The Yachts 'Britannia', 'Terpsichore' and 'Ilyrica' oil on canvas 30 x 64 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1923 The "Please" and "Thank you" Railway - Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1923 The "Please" and "Thank you" Railway Underground original artwork 61.8 x 53 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1926 Greenwich Reach colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| 1926 Ramsgate - Southern Railway colour lithograph poster 101.5 x 124.5 cm |
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| 1926 Southend-on-Sea "The Canvey Lady" District and Central London Railways colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum © TfL |
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| after 1927 Empire Marketing Board, India colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 |
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