Complete Listing of all military artwork by artist
Jason Askew. This list includes all works by Jason Askew,
including Zulu War military art, World War One military art and military
art from other periods including the Napoleonic Wars and World War Two.
Jason Askew was born in South Africa,
went to the Johannesburg school of art ballet and music, and attended
the City and Guilds of London Art College, Kennington. His interest in
military history started as a teenager in the history of South Africa,
The Zulu and South African wars, where he got his inspiration for his
first major epic series of the Zulu war. Everyone doing national service
had a choice of going to the army or the police. He was in the police -
the police and army training being very similar. In South Africa, the
police service was, and is still bearing the brunt of the civil unrest,
and the crime wave (average of 19000 murders per year for the last ten
years) It is through the experience of the police, and what he had to
confront, that motivated him to paint these experiences, and it was very
good for someone with an interest in military history to see the effects
of fighting first hand, particularly in the brutal, sometimes hand to
hand killing that is the norm in South African situations. He was based
at Hillbrow (the bronx of Joburg) and also served with the SAPS flying
squad. All the experiences that he had in the SAPS directly inform the
paintings that Jason Askew does. : I never lose sight of the fact that
real people are often caught in the middle of conflicts that are created
by politicians/governments/reasons beyond the control of individuals,
yet it is always individuals that suffer. Jason Askew is often
commissioned by many British and overseas regiments. 2RGR the gurkhas,
The Queens Lancashire Regiment, the Coldstream Guards, the Staffordshire
Regiment to name a few. He was also an official war artist for the
Staffordshire Regiment in Iraq. Cranston Fine Arts are proud to be
publishing a majority of art prints by Jason Askew since 2005 and are
planning a major series of releases which they have commissioned over
the next few months, including an outstanding series of eight First
World war battle scenes of many of the major western front battles. This
series started in 2007 and will be completed by the end of 2008. Also
included is a series of four Battle of Waterloo and four Zulu War
limited editions, all specially priced for collectors.
Paratroopers of Easy Company,101st Airborne Division, take cover in a doorway during the <i>Screaming eagles'</i> penetration of the town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ......
4 print editions available from £50.00 1 canvas print edition available from £220.00 Original Sold.
The Battle at Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an action in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immedi......
2 print editions available from £60.00 3 canvas print editions available from £375.00 Original available : £4400.00
Michael Wittman at the battle of Kursk. On the first day of the attack, X-Day, 5th July 1943, eleven Tigers under SS-Hauptsturmführer Kling move northwards to the town of Bykovka, under instructions to break through the Soviet defences located to ......
The Battle of Aliwal was fought on 28th January 1846 between the British and the Sikhs. The British were led by Sir Harry Smith, while the Sikhs were led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia. The British won a victory which is sometimes regarded as the turni......
2 print editions available from £50.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold.
The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
The Pak 40 - a hard hitting 75mm German anti-tank gun-seen here mounted on an SPW for greater battlefield mobility was essentially a scaled up version of the PaK 38 debuted in Russia where it was needed to combat the newest Soviet tanks there. It w......
The unit participated in large battles of summer 1944 during the Finnish-Soviet continuation war. The unit flew some 2,700 missions against the enemy and dropped 770 tonnes of bombs on the enemy. It destroyed over 150 Soviet aircraft, about 200 ta......
The British 1st Foot Guards and Coldstream Guards rush to defend the gate of Hougoumont Farm against a fierce French attack during the battle of Waterloo. During the battle, the Coldstream Guards lost 97 killed, 446 wounded and 4 missing, while the......
3 print editions available from £35.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £2100.00 1 ex-display print available from £45.00
On May 2nd 1945, Twenty-seven Mosquito aircraft from 143, 235, 248, 333 and 404 Squadrons on anti-submarine patrol around Kattegat sunk thte German minesweeper M293 and U-2359, a Type XXII U-Boat of 234 tons commanded by Oberleutnant Gustav Bischoff......
Australian VC winner-Private Albert Jacka, 14th battalion. He killed nine Turks who had bombed and infiltrated an Australian trench at Courtneys post during the great Turkish assault on 19th May. ......
4 print editions available from £55.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold.
Assault in the vicinity of Thiepval by the Ulster division-1st July 1916. The 11th Royal Irish Rifles, moving forward from the A line of trenches, and moving forward to attack the B line of trenches, the attacking infantry are preceded by Bombers -......
4 print editions available from £60.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £3000.00
The painting shows one of the two seven pounder guns and gun team attempting to retreat at speed as they are overrun. The British force consisted of 2 guns and 70 men of N Battery, 5th Brigade, Royal Artillery, 5 companies of 1st Battalion, the 24th......
Stukas from StG 2 Immelmann, part of the mixed unit Schlachtgeschwader, attack soviet T-34 tanks in an attempt to blunt the soviet 1943 offensives. Throughout 1943-45, squadrons operating the Ju87G variants equipped with 37 mm cannons became effect......
Very few of the British soldiers made it through the barbed wire defences, and even fewer to the German trenches. By the end of the first day the British losses were 60,000 men.......
4 print editions available from £60.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £4000.00
Hans Rudel, born in July 1916, was the most decorated Nazi pilot. In 2,530 combat missions flying dive-bombers, mainly on the Russian front, Rudel was credited with destroying 519 tanks, 150 gun emplacements and 800 combat vehicles of various types......
This incident took place on October 23rd,1914. A party of German soldiers had been driven to take shelter in the small house. British artillery then targeted the house, making the situation of the Germans uncomfortable. Under cover of the bombardme......
3 print editions available from £50.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold. 1 ex-display print available from £40.00
Thunderbolts of the 78th Fighter Group based at Duxford (station 357) engage Me109s during the August 17th raid on Schweinfurt. The 78th Fighter Group were assigned the duty of escorting the B-17s from Antwerp to Eupen between the hours of 1353-141......
The 29th Division go over the top to the sound of the officers whistle to attack Beaumont Hamel during the battle of the Somme. The regiments of the 29th Division are the Middlesex Regiment, Lancashire Fusiliers, Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers a......
3 print editions available from £60.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold.
By about 6pm the Zulu attacks had extended all around the front of the post, and fighting raged at hand-to-hand along the mealie-bag wall. Lieutenant Chard himself took up a position on the barricade, firing over the mealie-bags with a Martini-Henry......
2 print editions available from £40.00 Postcard edition available : £2.00
The British force of 17,000 British and native troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford engaged over 22,000 Zulu warriors on 4th July 1879 at Ulundi. During the battle several thousand Zulus surrounded the British infantry whi......
After taking the town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, US infantry take time out for coffee and cigarettes while keeping a look out from the rooftop of the building they have captured. ......
2 print editions available from £95.00 1 canvas print edition available from £220.00 Original available : £1500.00
The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
The Tiger tank was one of the most fearsome tanks in the German WW2 armoury. With firepower that could destroy most enemies at long range and armour that could withstand all but the closest of attacks, the Tiger is rightfully regarded as one of the......
Cannon equipped Ju87 Stukas from Hauptmann Rudel's squadrons had a devastating effect on Soviet armour at Orel and Bolgorod during the Kursk offensive of1943.
The Ju87s participated in a huge aerial counter-offensive lasting from 16th July to ......
1 Border Regiment (1st Airborne division) unload their Horsa gliders, and push on to the next stage of the operation, forming a defensive perimeter around the LZs and DZs, ready for the next lift. ......
2 print editions available from £50.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Postcard edition available : £2.00 1 ex-display print available from £65.00
The Battle of Britain destroyed the myth of the Stuka, proving for the first time that the Junkers Ju87 was slow, lumpish and vulnerable in air battles against well-organised and determined fighter opposition, such as the more manoeuverable and fast......
By about 6pm the Zulu attacks had extended all around the front of the post, and fighting raged at hand-to-hand along the mealie-bag wall. Lieutenant Chard himself took up a position on the barricade, firing over the mealie-bags with a Martini-Henry,......
2 print editions available from £35.00 Postcard edition available : £2.00
From June 1940 on, Adolf Galland flew as a of III./JG 26, fighting in the Battle of britain with 109-Emils from bases in the Pas de Calais. During the Battle of Britain, in a legendary front line General Officer briefing on Luftwaffe tactics, Herma......
I am the commander here, take your men back to hell, sir! I allow no surrenders :- Lt Colonel Alexander Thorneycroft, of the Thorneycrofts Mounted Infantry, and the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex regiment. They then charged Boer skirmishers in support of......
2 print editions available from £75.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Postcard edition available : £2.00
The painting depicts the climax of the Zulu attacks at the defence of Rorkes Drift. The Zulus were unable to effectively penetrate the mealie bag defenses at Rorkes Drift, even though they succeeded in burning down the hospital, and peppering the st......
3 print editions available from £40.00 3 canvas print editions available from £470.00 Original available : £3000.00
The painting shows a young 16 year old George Mossop of the Frontier Light Horse who escaped from the Zulu attack at Hlobane, thanks to his pony Warrior. Warrior was wounded during the battle, but the pony still managed to carry Mossop to safety at ......
3 print editions available from £50.00 1 canvas print edition available from £250.00
The 2nd Australian Brigade were brought up to reinforce the British attempt to force the Turkish positions at Achi-baba. this action developed into the second Battle of Krithia. ......
4 print editions available from £70.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold.
Utah beach was the great American success story of D-day. Compared to the difficulties encountered on Omaha beach, the casualties suffered by the American 4th Division on Utah beach were described as 'light'. Although tactical problems wer......
4 print editions available from £75.00 3 canvas print editions available from £475.00 Original available : £7000.00
Stukas from StG77 attack soviet T-34 tanks , supporting the German forces in their drive towards Moscow. From 13-22 December 1941, 420 vehicles and 23 tanks were destroyed by StG 77, greatly improving the morale of the German infantry, who were by ......
After breaking through the German defences on Utah Beach, and neutralising the enemy strongpoint at La Madeleine, forward recon elements of the 8th US Infantry, 4th US Division, enter the town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, in order to effect a ......
2 print editions available from £95.00 1 canvas print edition available from £220.00 Original Sold.
With production totals greater than any other armoured unit in the German army, the Stug, or Sturmgeschutz III, was a formidable enemy on the battlefield. ......
Dawn. British artillery thundered, and the territorial soldiers 15th Scottish division stormed towards the German trenches defending the coal mining village of Loos. The gas cloud that preceded the Highland advance was pendulous and largely stat......
3 print editions available from £50.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold. 1 ex-display print available from £40.00
Private Wassall, whilst escaping the debacle of Isandhlwana, was being pursued by Zulu warriors as he made his way down the Buffalo River, the border between Zululand and Natal. Wassall rode his Basuto pony into the river, but upon hearing a cry for......
2 print editions available from £75.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Postcard edition available : £2.00 1 ex-display print available from £50.00
The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British commenced their invasion of Zululand in South Africa, a Zulu force of som......
2 print editions available from £60.00 3 canvas print editions available from £375.00 Original available : £4400.00
The fierce attack by the French infantry on Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo. ......
3 print editions available from £55.00 2 canvas print editions available from £480.00 Original available : £2100.00 1 ex-display print available from £45.00
One of the most widely used aircraft of the Luftwaffe, the Ju88 was employed in a variety of roles, including night-fighter, bomber, dive-bomber and reconnaissance. The aircraft fought in numerous theatres, including the Battle of France, Battle o......
Aubers / Neuve Chapelle -1500-The 1st battalion, Black Watch, brought in to relieve the shattered 2nd Brigade, go over the top and advanced at the double across no -mans land. Suffering heavy casualties from the incessant German machine gun fire, e......
3 print editions available from £50.00 3 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original Sold. 1 ex-display print available from £40.00
