| Mark Churms, Military artist art prints of The battle of
Waterloo and other Napoleonic subjects including Napoleon at The Battle of
Friedland. Mark Churms' eye for details makes his military art prints very
collectable, available from the Military print Company (Cranston Fine Arts)
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March Past of the Grenadier Guards by Mark Churms.
The Duke of Wellington at the head of the 1st Foot Guards including the Colour Party, Hyde Park, 1829, as they pass King George IV with his staff and the Duke of Orleans while the band of the 2nd Life Guards perform. On the right of the picture is shown a Colonel of the 15th Hussars. Behind the figures can be seen Aspley House, the residence of the Duke of Wellington.
Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £95.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £135.00
Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm). Price £2.00
ITEM CODE DHM0368
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Hearts of Oak by Mark Churms.
In January 1793 the 1st Battalion of the 29th Foot leaves Windsor for Hilsea to board Royal Navy fighting ships as there is a shortage of marines. Their new roll is to counter enemy musket fire from the upper decks, to lead boarding parties and to maintain discipline of the crew. They are specially equipped with a new working rig but still retain their full dress red coats and powdered hair (curled locks above the ear are removed) for combat. The regiment joins The British Channel Fleet under Admiral Earl Howe, and detachments are allocated to the following ships of the line; H.M.S. Glory, Thunderer, Alfred, Pegasus and Ramilles. 78 soldiers under the command of Cpt. Alexander Saunders are also placed aboard Captain Harveys 74 gun H.M.S. Brunswick. Howes ships are sent to intercept a fleet, of similar size that has put out from Brest to escort a large convoy of food from America, destined for Revolutionary France. The two fleets make contact but fog prevents an engagement until 1 Oarn on the first day of June 1794. Now, in bright sunshine, the order is given to attack! Brunswick is directly astern of Howes flag ship as the French line is broken. She quickly engages Le Vengeur with which she becomes dangerously entangled. Broadsides are exchanged at point blank range! Sails are shot to ribbons, masts and rigging fall. Grenades, carronades and musketry find their targets and casualties mount. Nevertheless, the ships band, joined by a negro regimental drummer on the quarter deck, keep up moral by playing the new and popular air Hearts Of Oak. The two ships drift helplessly as another French man-of-war, Achille, comes in for the kill but the British gunners deliver such a devastating broadside into this new assailant that she is completely demasted and strikes her colours! In the firefight the figure head, an effigy of the Duke of Brunswick, has its carved wooden hat blown clean away. So, Captain Harvey calmly replaces the loss with his own cocked hat! The captain himself receives a blow to the hand and is subsequently mortally wounded with a section of chain-shot. Cpt. Saunders is killed by a snipers bullet and Lt. Harcourt Vernon (wearing short, non regulation boots to facilitate amputation) is soon wounded as well. The decks are cleared of downed masts and rigging, the dead also go over the side. cl At about one oclock the two interlocked ships are separated by a swell and Harveys brothers ship Ramilles cornes to the Brunsivicks assistance. The crippled Vengeur cannot compete with the skill of English gunnery and the ship is raked from end to end by galling fire. Cheers ring out as she surrenders and hoists the Union Jack. The rest of the French fleet breaks off the engagement. Six of their ships are out of action and Le Vengeur is so very badly holed that she eventually sinks (many of her crew refusing to abandon her. Singing the Marseillaise they re-hoist her battle flag as they slip to their watery grave) This British fleet returns in triumph to Spithead. However, the scene on the Brunswicks splintered poop deck is one of utter devastation. The regiment has 13 officers and men killed, another 18 are wounded and nearly quarter of the ships company is lost. This hard won victory is commemorated by the regiment with Naval Crown (awarded to the regiment in 1909, an honour shared only by the Queens Regiment) and by the adoption of the tune played throughout the height of battle, Hearts of Oak.
Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £65.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £135.00
**Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. (6 reduced to clear) Image size 15 inches x 24 inches (38cm x 61cm). Price £55.00
ITEM CODE DHM0369
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Sabres on the Esla Pursuit of the Imperial Guard at the Battle of
Benevente by Mark Churms. Sir John Moore's epic retreat to Corunna was punctuated by desperate
and often heroic rear-guard actions - none more dramatic than the
cavalry clash at Benevente on the 29th December 1808. Having crossed the
river Esla, cold and swollen by recent rainfall, a British picquet,
comprised of elements of the King's German Legion Hussars and the 7th,
10th and 18th Hussars, covers the river and its tactically demolished
Castro Gonzalo's bridge from a position near the town of Benevente.
Napoleon himself leads the pursuit. The Emperors elite Guard Light
Cavalry, commanded by General Lefebvre-Desnouettes, is ordered at
daylight to ford the river and launch a surprise attack on what appears
to be the numerically inferior British units. As five-hundred and fifty
French cavalry emerge in orderly fashion from the river, intent upon
quickly dispatching the opposition, they are startled to find the
British piquet, reinforced by a host of British cavalry, streaming from
within the confines of Benevente, some on their left flank. Under the
command of Lord Paget, the British become the pursuers of the surprised
French, who turn and retreat with the frigid waters of the Esla blocking
their escape. Unlike their crossing in echelon just minutes before, the
French now in disorder plunge into the river, where many drown. Others
are captured including General Lefebvre-Desnouettes who is made prisoner
by Grisdale of the 10th Hussars following a dramatic pursuit. General
Lefebvre-Desnouettes will eventually escape from captivity in England,
to encounter Lord Paget once again on the field of Waterloo.
DHM0250. Marshal Ney at the Battle of Waterloo by Mark Churms.
Marshal Ney charging at the head of the French cavalry against the
British Squares, Off all Napoleon's Generals at waterloo none
distinguished himself more than Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskowa, the
splendid warrior upon whom his Imperial master had conferred the proud
title of Le Brave des Braves' (The Bravest of the Brave). twice he led
the attack on the British centre, first at the head of the cavalry and
then with the Old Guard, and he only retired from the field at
nightfall, after five horses had been killed under him.
DHM0454. La Charge (Donop's Cavalry at Waterloo) by
Mark Churms. With Marechal de camp Frederic-Guillaume de Donop at their head, the
2nd and 3rd Cuirassier regiments charge the steadfast bayonets of the
redcoat squares.
DHM0565. Sabres on the Esla. Pursuit of the Imperial Guard at the Battle of
Benevente by Mark Churms. Sir John Moore's epic retreat to Corunna was punctuated by desperate
and often heroic rear-guard actions - none more dramatic than the
cavalry clash at Benevente on the 29th December 1808. Having crossed the
river Esla, cold and swollen by recent rainfall, a British picquet,
comprised of elements of the King's German Legion Hussars and the 7th,
10th and 18th Hussars, covers the river and its tactically demolished
Castro Gonzalo's bridge from a position near the town of Benevente.
Napoleon himself leads the pursuit. The Emperors elite Guard Light
Cavalry, commanded by General Lefebvre-Desnouettes, is ordered at
daylight to ford the river and launch a surprise attack on what appears
to be the numerically inferior British units. As five-hundred and fifty
French cavalry emerge in orderly fashion from the river, intent upon
quickly dispatching the opposition, they are startled to find the
British piquet, reinforced by a host of British cavalry, streaming from
within the confines of Benevente, some on their left flank. Under the
command of Lord Paget, the British become the pursuers of the surprised
French, who turn and retreat with the frigid waters of the Esla blocking
their escape. Unlike their crossing in echelon just minutes before, the
French now in disorder plunge into the river, where many drown. Others
are captured including General Lefebvre-Desnouettes who is made prisoner
by Grisdale of the 10th Hussars following a dramatic pursuit. General
Lefebvre-Desnouettes will eventually escape from captivity in England,
to encounter Lord Paget once again on the field of Waterloo. DHM0368.
March Past of the Grenadier Guards by Mark Churms. The Duke of Wellington at the head of the 1st Foot
Guards, Hyde Park, 1829. (Although not a Napoleonic war art print this
painting does depict Wellington and other figures who participated in the
battle of Waterloo).
Honor & Glory by Mark Churms. Surrounded by the enemy and cut off from their comrades, a handful
of the Emperor Napoleons French Grenadiers choose to attack, against
all odds, rather than face the dishonor of surrender!
Die Uberlebenden by Mark Churms.
Saxon Gardes du Corps Officer and The Survivors of the
French heavy cavalry attack on the Great Redoubt at the Battle of
Borodino in the Napoleonic Wars. |
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