Brian Wood. is one of the leading
Australian Historical and Naval artists of our time. Brian Wood has been
commissioned by Cranston Fine arts over the past 8 years to produce some
of the best historical art prints around today. Including The Bismarck,
HMS hood, HMS Prince of Wales, and HMS ark Royal. Also a selection
of Scottish and Viking historical prints. Many of these prints are now
running low. so we recommend purchase sooner than later.
HMS Ark Royal by Brian Wood. HMS Ark Royal is shown in hot pursuit of the Bismarck.
HMS Rodney by Brian Wood
Destruction of Bismarck complete, and desperately low
on fuel, Rodney turns for home 27th May 1941.
Death of the Bismarck. by Brian Wood
Trafalgar by Brian Wood.
Undoubtedly the most famous battle in the history of naval warfare. The battle of Trafalgar was fought on a calm, almost windless day, on 21st October 1805. Nelsons revolutionary battle plan was to cut apart the larger Franco-Spanish fleet of Vice-Admiral Villeneuve by sailing in two single column divisions directly at right angles into the combined fleet and thus rendering almost half of the leading ships useless until they could turn and join the fight, which in such calm conditions could take hours. The battle raged for five hours, in which time not one single British ship was lost, however, Nelson would tragically lose his life at the very moment of his triumph, a triumph which rendered the British Navy unchallenged in supremacy for over a century.
HMS Resolution was a Royal Navy sloop and the ship in which Captain Cook made his second and third voyages. Along along with HMS Adventure they set sail from Plymouth on the 13th of July 1772. The total crew consisted of 112 including 20 volunteers form HMS Endeavour which was the ship captained by Cook on his first voyage from 1768 to 1771. On 17 January 1773, HMS Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle and crossed twice more on the voyage. HMS Resolution returned to Britain in 1775 and was then paid off, being recommissioned in February 1776 for the third voyage of Captain Cook. It was on this voyage that HMS Resolution crossed the Arctic Circle on 17th August 1778, and again crossed it on 19th July 1779. In this painting HMS resolution is shown arrving back in Britain on 4 October 1780.
Item Code : DHM0420
HMS Resolution 1780 by Brian Wood. - Editions Available
Captain Cooks ship shown landing a party on the continent of Australia. Initially launched as the Collier Earl of Pembroke in 1764, the ship was purchased by the Admiralty in 1768 for the specific reason of a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean. Renamed HMS Endeavour and becoming a 10 gun Royal Navy barque, she was captained by Lieutenant James Cook and this was to be his first of three famous voyages. HMS Endeavour set sail from Plymouth in August 1768, returning in 1771.
HMS Ark Royal part of Force H along with the Battleship HMS Renown and Cruiser HMS Sheffield departs Gibraltar to take part in the search for the Bismarck in the Atlantic. During the hunt HMS Ark Royal, Swordfish mistakenly attack the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Sheffiled. Fortunately, the torpedoes were not primed properly and crusier recieived no major damage. Spotter planes from HMS Ark Royal eventually found the Bismarck. and a attack commenced, crippling the Bismarcks rudder. The damage sustained lead to the rest of the Royal Navy surface fleet catching up with the Bismarck and sinking her. HMS ark Royal returns to the mediteranean. later on 13 November 1941: While on her return to Gibraltar in company with the HMS Malaya, HMS Argus, and HMS Hermione supported by Seven destroyers, HMSArk Royal is attacked by the U-81 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Guggenberger in the Mediterranean., and at 1541, a torpedo strikes the starboard side and the ship immediately takes a 10º list.........
The English fleet pursued the Armada up the English Channel and, as darkness fell, Vice Admiral Drake broke off and captured the Spanish galleon Rosario, Admiral Pedro de Valdes and the crew. The Rosario was known to be carrying substantial funds to pay the Spanish Army in the Low Countries. Drakes ship had been leading the English pursuit of the Armada by means of a lantern. By extinguishing this for the capture, Drake put the fleet into disarray overnight. On the night of 29th July 1588, Vice Admiral Drake organised fire-ships, causing most of the Spanish captains to break formation and sail out of Calais . The next day, Drake was present at the Battle of Gravelines. English losses were comparatively few, and none of their ships were sunk.
Item Code : DHM0382
Grenvilles Revenge by Brian Wood. - Editions Available
The pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, passes Gibraltar on her way to join HMS Prince of Wales at Scapa Flow and onto her short and tragic engagement with the German battleship Bismarck.
Item Code : DHM0378
HMS Hood Passing Gibraltar by Brian Wood. - Editions Available
HMS Prince of Wales by Brian Wood HMS Prince of Wales is shown firing on the Bismarck and in the
background a huge black cloud is all that is left of HMS Hood.
H.M.A.S. Nizam 1943 by Brian Wood N Class destroyer built at Clydebank in July of 1940.
H.M.A.S.Vampire 1939 by Brian Wood Bombed by Japanese Aircraft east of Ceylon 23.9.42.
H.M.A.S. Manoora 1940 by Brian Wood Armed Merchant Cruiser, sinking an Italian freighter.
H.M.A.S. Hobart 1944 by Brian Wood Leander class cruiser, built at Davenport, October 1934. Sister ships
HMS Leander, HMS Neptune, HMS Orion.
Chris has produced a wealth of impressive paintings from the Napoleonic War, American Civil War, English Civil War, and a variety of Portraits of Great Military Leaders, He also has produced superb paintings of Pirates, a particular favourite of his. Chris studied at Berkshire College of Art 1966 - 1970 and then worked for Halas and Batchelor as a background artist. In the golden age of book cover illustration Chris made the Gunslinger, Crow and Herne series his own. To this day the shelves of high street booksellers are full of his work. Perhaps his best known popular pieces are in the now famous Jorvik Centres paintings which form the focus of the exhibitions promotion and won a travel industry award. In recent years his best work has been paintings, such as SPQR, Anne Bonny, Mary Reid and Calico Jack Rakam and Blackbeard in Damnation Seize My Soul. His super realistic style, using oils, brilliantly reflects the techniques, passion and depth of the old masters. He has a particular love of portraiture, which his portraits of Wellington and William of Orange certainly reflect, along with others from the English Civil War, his love of the subject. He is also fascinated by the awful romance of weaponry and war. Chris uses traditional Dutch paints made today, as in 1664, and is meticulous in his research and attention to detail, so scarce in our modern throw away society. Sir Anthony Van Dyke, William Dobson, Sir Peter Lely and Fortunio Matania played a vital part in his formative years. He also is much influenced by Meissonier and De Neuville.
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