Mark Churms range of military
paintings and prints of colonial India including Battle of Aliwal, Battle
of Lucknow and colonial parades showing Skinners Horse and other Bengal
Lancer regiments.
Sowar of Probyns Horse Engages Mutineers at Lucknow, 1857 by Mark Churms. (P)
Study for the original painting Charge and Pursue.
Item Code : MC0024
Sowar of Probyns Horse Engages Mutineers at Lucknow, 1857 by Mark Churms. (P) - Editions Available
The 16th Lancers were part of General Sir Harry Smith's army consisitng of the British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns of Ranjodh Singh during the First Sikh War which was fought on the 28th January 1848 in the Punjab in the North West of India. This painting depicts the 16th Lancers which were part of Brigadier Macdowell's brigade consisitng of the 16th Queen's Lancers, 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 4th Bengal Irregular Cavalry. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery. The Lancers are shown wearing over their chapkas the white cotton cover which had been adopted for service in the tropics.
Item Code : DHM0377
Officer 16th Lancers India, 1846 by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
The Queens Bays engage enemy foot and horse outside Luknow, led by Major Percy Smith. The regiment was given the order to charge and pursue. The Bays thundered into action accompanied by the second Punjab cavalry. In the action Major Percy Smith was killed along with two corporals.
Item Code : DHM0361
Charge and Pursue by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal by Mark Churms.
The 16th Lancers were part of General Sir Harry Smith's army consisitng of the British and Bengali army of 12,000 men and 30 guns against the Sikh army of 30,000 men and 67 guns of Ranjodh Singh during the First Sikh War which was fought on the 28th January 1848 in the Punjab in the North West of India. This painting depicts the 16th Lancers which were part of Brigadier Macdowell's brigade consisitng of the 16th Queen's Lancers, 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 4th Bengal Irregular Cavalry. The 16th Lancers charged several times during the action, breaking a number of Sikh infantry squares and overrunning a battery of Sikh artillery. The Lancers are shown wearing over their chapkas the white cotton cover which had been adopted for service in the tropics.
Item Code : DHM0359
Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
The colour and pageantry of the Raj is exemplified by a full-dress review in honour of the Viceroys visit to Luknow in 1899. The famous regiment of Bengal Lancers known as Skinners Horse, or Sikander Sahibs Yellow Boys receive the salutes from British Army staff officers. Also present are the 3rd Hussars.
Item Code : DHM0461
Sikander Sahibs Yellow Boys by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
DHM0461. Sikander Sahib's Yellow Boys by Mark Churms.
The colour and pageantry of the Raj is exemplified by a full-dress
review in honour of the Viceroy's visit to Lucknow in 1899. The famous
regiment of Bengal Lancers known as Skinners Horse, or Sikander Sahib's
Yellow Boys receive the salutes from British Army staff officers. Also
present are the 3rd Hussars.
DHM0374.
Officer Skinners Horse 1905 by Mark Churms. The Founder's Church of St. James,
Dehli, illustrates its
association with this famous regiment of Bengal Lancers.
MARK0005.
Original Oil Study of Officer Skinners Horse painting by
Mark Churms.
DHM0376. 2nd Dragoon Guards Officer by Mark Churms.
2nd Dragoons during
the Charge of the Queens bays at Lucknow.
DHM0377.
Officer 16th Lancers India,
1846 by Mark Churms. Officer of the 16th Lancers during the Battle of
Aliwal.
DHM0361. Charge and Pursue by Mark
Churms. The Queen's Bays engage enemy foot and horse outside
Luknow, led by Major Percy Smith. The regiment was given the order to
"charge and pursue". The Bays thundered into action accompanied
by the second Punjab cavalry. In the action Major Percy Smith was killed
along with two corporals.
DHM0359.
Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal by Mark Churms. This oil study shows the 16th Lancers attacking the Mutineers Infantry square
and artillery.
Anthony Gibbs was born in 1951 in Birmingham. He went to Bourneville School of Art for one year, but is mostly self-taught. His first one man show was in 1976 at the Colmore Galleries, with further one man exhibitions at this venue following, in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988 and 1991. Anthony Gibbs had a one man exhibition Nature In Art at Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire in 2000. His first limited edition print released February 1988 - White Tigers Ever Watchful – was an edition of 1550, the largest edition of a limited print by Solomon and Whitehead at the time, and the largest order from the from the USA (650) they have ever had. He went to Kenya for the first time in February 1989, and is a member of the Society of Animal Artists in New York, The Woodland Trust. He won the Peoples Choice Award on a national tour exhibition of the USA in 1992 and 1993, with the Society of Animal Artists. Anthony Gibbs was awarded the Award of Excellence Medal from the Society in 1997 and 2001. He has exhibited at numerous venues across the USA with the Society of Animal Artists and also across Britain – exhibitions including the Mall Galleries, Nature In Art, Wildfowl And Wetlands Trust, London. He has sold work through both Christies and Sotherbys. Anthony Gibbs went to the Yellowstone National Park and Tetons National Park to study the wildlife and habitat in the U.S.A. in 2003.
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