Charles Pears

Charles Pears

1873 — 1958

British artist (1873-1958)

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Works

A glacier

A P&O liner

HMS Dunraven

'There is no uninhabitable unnavigable'* (triptych, centre panel)

'There is no uninhabitable unnavigable'* (triptych, left wing)

'There is no uninhabitable unnavigable'* (triptych, right wing)

Beachy Head, East Sussex, Moonlight

Charles Pears Towner Eastbourne

Great Western Railway Steamer 'St Patrick' Passing the Old Harry Rocks

Moonlight Barque

Rescue of the Hospital Ship 'Aba' by HMS 'Coventry'

Charles Pears musée royal de Cornouailles

The Bombing of 'The British Chancellor', 10 July 1940

Charles Pears Falmouth Art Gallery

The marvel of Mulberry: Normandy landing, June 1944

The Needles, Isle of Wight

The Pool of London during Dockland Air Raids, 1940

Charles Pears Guildhall Art Gallery

Three types of iceberg

Aboard a minesweeping trawler

Battleship in Suez Canal, HMS 'Howe'

Night Scene of Southern Railway Steamers as Hospital Ships during World War II

Southern Railway Cargo Steamer under Attack from German Aircraft during World War II

Southern Railway Steamers as Hospital Ships Awaiting the Wounded at Dunkirk during World War II

Yacht Regatta at Southend-on-Sea, Essex

An Officer of a Motor Launch about to Board a Norwegian Steamer

The Lights of Rosyth from the Forth Bridge Footpath: Port Edgar and the Fleet

Dazzled, a Camouflaged Battleship: HMS 'Ramillies' in a Gale of Wind

HMS 'Dunraven VC' in Action against the Submarine That Sank Her, 8 August 1917

Women Putting Anti-Fouling Paint on the Bottom of a Motor Launch, Leith

A Big Crane at Rosyth Placing a Gun on a Light Cruiser at Night

A Boarding Party of Royal Naval Reserve Men Going Aboard a Prize under Searchlight

A Convoy

A Corner of the Dockyard, Rosyth: Winter

A Dazzled Merchantman

A Drifting Mine

A Hospital Ship at Night

A Motor Launch Recovering a Torpedo: HMS 'Yarmouth' at Practice, January 1918

A Thunderstorm, Harwich: Submarines Leaving Port

At Work on a Battleship at Rosyth: Testing Cables at Night by the Light of a Flare Lamp

Big and Little: HMS 'Glorious' and a Motor Launch at the Island of Inchkeith under Snow

Camouflaged Merchant Steamer Aground

Charles Pears Manchester Art Gallery

Dawn: Sending away Coastal Motor Boats, 11 August 1918

German Star Shells: Men at the Guns off the German Coast, 11 August 1918

HMS 'Fearless'

HMS 'Ullswater': A Destroyer Torpedoed

North Queensferry Signal Station, Winter: The First Battle Cruiser Squadron Seen from the Forth Bridge

Pay Night, Rosyth, in Winter

Port Edgar, Firth of Forth, the Destroyer Base of the Northern Waters: Sunset, V-Class Destroyers Backing out to Sea

River Plate Pageant

Rosyth: Fog Obscuring the Dockyard

Rosyth: Light Cruiser Anchorage

Steam Pinnaces at Hawkes Pier

Strafed by a German Seaplane off Terschelling

The Action of 11 August 1918, Island of Borkum: Zeppelin Falling; the Flagship is Flying the Signal

The British Submarine K22 in Dry Dock, at Rosyth, in Winter

The Gate Ship at Granton Painted Scarlet to Indicate the Port Entrance through One of the Barriers across the Firth of Forth

The German Fleet at Anchor off Inchkeith, Firth of Forth: After the Surrender, 22 November 1918

The Harwich Gate Ships, Barrier and Light Cruisers under Searchlight

The North Sea: The Night of 10 August 1918

The Wake: HMS 'Courageous' at Top Speed

HMS 'Courageous' in Dry Dock, at Rosyth, in Winter

HMS 'Furious': Aerodrome Ship

Streaming the Paravanes: Paravanes Enable a Ship to Go through Mines in Almost Complete Safety

Off Cowes, 1923: the yachts 'Britannia', 'Terpsichore' and 'Ilyrica'

A ship of the 'Queen Elizabeth' class [HMS 'Valiant']

London (Great Western Railway poster artwork)

The passenger liner 'Queen Mary' arriving at Southampton, 27 March 1936

Great Western Railway Steamer 'St Helier' Evacuating Troops, Dunkirk, 1 June 1940

Shelling of a British Convoy by the Germans from the French Coast

Self Portrait

Charles Pears Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

The 'Tirpitz' Attacked by Barracudas, 3 April 1944

Handing Over a Convoy from American to British Escorts

Surrender of U-111 to the trawler 'Lady Shirley'

The 'Jervis Bay' action, 5 November 1940

A British Convoy on Its Way to Russia

A German Searchlight across the English Channel

Aircraft carriers in the Malta convoy

Convoy to Russia

The Convoy Led by Admiral Vian Fighting Its Way through to Malta

Bombardment of Pantellaria, Italy, 11 June 1943

Captain Sherbrook's Action, 31 December 1942

The Norwegian Coast, Spring 1940

Sinking of Great Western Railway Steamer 'St David' (converted to hospital ship) off Anzio, 24 January 1944

Sinking of the Scharnhorst, 26 December 1943

The Wandsworth Gas Company collier 'Chessington' moving upstream on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament, c. 1948

Isle of Man: Peel Castle (British Railways poster artwork)