20.5 x 40.5 cms (8 x 16 ins). Maritime Prints. oil on board.
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This original 1922 watercolour shows HMS RENOWN (Captain the Hon Herbert Meade DSO) wearing the Prince of Wales’ Standard at […]
More than a rare bird! This is an original watercolour which has never seen the light of day not even, unusually, as […]
Miscellaneous. watercolour with annotation “HMS ZULU” and artist’s mongram “AJ” (both lower right). 7½ x 10½ ins (19 x 26.7 […]
This striking painting first appeared in the Sphere magazine on 22nd January 1944 which sought to betray to its readers […]
Miscellaneous. Watercolour with iniitials E de M (LL). 8 x14 1/4 ins (20.3 x 32 cms) approx
Oil on board. 26 x 36 cms (10 x 14 ins) approx
HMS AGINCOURT is a rare bird indeed! When first completed in August 1914 no other ship in the world could […]
No races were more keenly contested than those in which a man o’ war’s boats took part at pulling and […]
HM YACHT BRITANNIA ESCORTED UP CHANNEL BY THE HOME FLEET, 14th MAY 1954 (Francis Russell Flint, 1915-1977) This was the […]
In the background, the carrier HMS FURIOUS; in the foreground (extreme left), a ditched aircraft, tail up and probably not […]
Provenance: with the Rembrandt Gallery. This watercolour features as colour plate no. 3 in “Sea Fights of the Great War” […]
Dated by the artist 1913 this is an early painting of KING GEORGE V (Captain G H Baird RN) for […]
In 1922 when this watercolour is dated, the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth (flag in HMS VICTORY) was Admiral The Hon Sir Somerset […]
Alma Cull like so many of his contemporaries was clearly fascinated by the great new dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers […]
Cull makes it clear that we are in sunny climes and the Protected Cruiser HMS DIDO is whispering her way through […]
HMS REVENGE (Captain George Ross CB RN) is painted here by Frank Watson Wood lying to a buoy in the […]
The squadron was a mixed bag of classes of cruiser and was under the command of Rear Admiral 1st Cruiser […]
It was in the early spring of 1937 that the Governor General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir (better known as the […]
Cull had obviously had a few days at sea with the Iron Dukes as this watercolour is very similar to […]
This watercolour shows the newly commissioned HMS DREADNOUGHT lying to a buoy in Portsmouth Harbour. Although when artists date paintings they […]
One of 7 ships of the Kent Class – a sub divison of the Royal Navy’s County Class which numbered […]
Detective work leads to the conclusion that this is a painting of the early stages of the Battle of Dogger […]
Although he has dated the painting 1910, the artist does not identify the subjects of his watercolour: but they are […]
A familiar scene for those who knew Malta between the wars, Cecil King has painted Grand Harbour with two battleships […]
A familiar sight to those who knew the Solent in the first three and a half decades of the twentieth […]
Charles Dixon at his finest: large warships of the very newest types, admirals flags and bunting afluttering, snowy white awnings […]
Both from the 1st Cruiser Squadron (Rear Admiral Lewis Bayly CVO), HMS LION (Captain Arthur Duff) was in fact the […]
An artist renowned for his ability to create beautiful, delicate skies and seas, he has here exceeded even his legendary […]
Executed from a spot ashore at Fort Blockhouse on the Gosport side of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour this is […]
A beautifully executed painting enhanced by the fact that the colour element is hand painted and with body colour added […]
Three of His Majesty’s fleets are seen here mustered at Spithead: the Mediterranean, the Home and the Reserve Fleets. […]
To see these three great battle cruisers breasting the full force of a North Atlantic gale must have been a […]
At 3.00pm on Monday 15th June 1953 the Despatch Vessel HMS SURPRISE (Cdr R A M Hennessey DSC RN) wearing […]
It was the squadron that arguably saved Beatty’s bacon at Jutland! There were five ships in the 5th Battle Squadron: […]
Five years before this painting of HMS ENDURANCE at South Georgia in 1982, a small task force led by HMS […]
There are welcome signs that the morning mist is beginning to lift and the sun is making an attempt to […]
Built by Armstrong at Elswick 1911-1915 to order for the Chilean Navy and originally named VALPARAISO, this ship was essentially […]
This etching of the Review of the Fleet has been seen by me just once before in some 40 years of […]
This is a series of vignettes each highlighting some of the major events that took place on the Rock to […]
Formerly the property of the Fifth Earl Howe, the painting is now owned by M French Esq This magnificent painting […]
This celebrated etching is one of very few executed by Wyllie depicting the handsome TIGER, the new three funnelled battle […]
A classically beautiful Cull with VANGUARD (Captain A.D. Ricardo RN) and another St. Vincent Class dreadnought ploughing through a cold, […]
A typical etching by Rowland Langmaid shows the Royal Yacht (Rear Admiral D.B.N. North CB CSI CMG CVO ADC), Rear […]
HOOD (Captain H.O. Reinold CVO RN) is painted here in 1926 off the west coast of Scotland enroute to Invergordon. […]
There have been British Royal Yachts since the time of King Charles II and probably before; but it was not […]
Built on the banks of Scotland’s River Clyde, the great 860 foot long hull – already weighing some 21,000 tons […]
Painted here emerging from patchy visibility is the 3rd Battle Squadron, with HMS IRON DUKE (Captain F M Austin RN) […]
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH (Captain Geoffrey Blake DSO RN), flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet (Admiral Sir John de Robeck Bt […]
Immediately after the surrender of Turkey in November 1918, Vice-Admiral The Hon Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe GCMG KCB CVO, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean […]
One of many dozens of Ton Class mine countermeasures vessels still serving in the RN in the 1970s, this one, […]
Dated by the artist 1937 this watercolour appears to have been executed at the same time as the others he painted of events […]
This largish, striking watercolour of the new dreadnought battleship HMS CENTURION (Captain The Hon Horace Hood MVO RN) running trials […]
Another classic Cull with its placid, delicate water and finely painted, gloriously colourful sky: and whispering gently along with the […]
Cull has shown us a last glimpse of the beautiful lines of this controversial battle cruiser before she was taken […]
The dreadnought battleship HMS ORION and the 2nd Battle Squadron (HMS MONARCH, HMS THUNDERER and HMS CONQUEROR) are painted here in line […]
This small etching is one of Wyllie’s rarest and although its hard to place the location opinion seems to suggest […]
Royal Marine Musician George Lloyd was serving in the light cruiser HMS TRINIDAD in March 1942 when she was ordered […]
Explore our remarkable wall painting of HMS Amethyst, captured by the renowned artist Frank Mason. This watercolour depicts the battleship […]
Dated 1925 by Cull, there is no reason to believe that this painting of the ship was not actually executed […]
This watercolour is dated 1925 by Cull and its very typical of this artist: beautiful colouring, fine draftsmanship and intricate […]
A set of three (only one illustrated) monochrome sketches: this one is the scene from HMS APOLLO looking aft with […]
Listed in January 1919’s Navy List under the heading “HM Australian Ships Serving with the Royal Navy” AUSTRALIA was laid […]
This fine, large watercolour gives us a glimpse of how HMS PRINCE OF WALES (Captain J C Leach MVO RN) […]
REPULSE (Captain F C Dreyer CB CBE) in company with HMS HOOD (Captain G Mackworth DSO CMG) sailed from Devonport, […]
In 1922 consultations were held between the Governors and Cabinets of the Dominions, Colonies and Foreign Protectorates, the Admiralty and […]
During this period (1905-06) HMS JUPITER was attached to the Atlantic Fleet: commanded by Captain William De Salis MVO RN […]
There are paintings of ships and there are paintings of ships: this is one of those whose appeal is largely […]
The protected anchorage at Portland formed by Chesil Beach and the south Dorset coast mainland to the west and […]
HMS St VINCENT was, when laid down in the last few days of 1907, the first Dreadnought battleship designed to […]
The setting is very familiar to those who know Frank Watson Wood’s Plymouth seascapes: a view looking south east across […]
This watercolour, recently discovered at a London auction house, fits neatly into a pattern of Frank Wood’s works that aimed, […]
HRH The Prince of Wales commissioned the yacht designer G L Watson in 1892 to design him a racing cutter. […]
Frank Watson Wood was clearly a very busy artist over this period of the two fleet reviews which occurred within […]
HMS VICTORY (Captain J de M Hutchison CVO CMG) wearing at the main the flag of the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth, Admiral […]
This fine oil painting by Burgess – a master of accurate ship draftmanship and especially admired for his skilful ability to […]
This watercolour is one of over one hundred similar ship portraits – please enter Tufnell in the SEARCH box for […]
This watercolour is one of several similar ones Frank Wood painted of the forlorn scene as ships of the surrendered […]
HMS DUBLIN IN THE ADRIATIC ESCORTED BY FRENCH AND ITALIAN DESTROYERS FOLLOWING AN AUSTRIAN TORPEDO ATTACK, 9 JUNE 1915 This […]
Wood has painted the 2nd Cruiser Squadron possibly because he was commissioned by the Rear Admiral Commanding, Rear Admiral Sir […]
One of a class of four (RALEIGH, EFFINGHAM and FROBISHER were the others), HMS HAWKINS was launched in October 1917 […]
A destroyer of the V & W class guarding a merchantman – World War 1 and possibly before the introduction […]
There are few more iconic paintings from the Great War at sea than William Wyllie’s celebrated watercolour ‘Bringing in the […]
In mid May 1941 word was recieved by the Admiralty in London that the new 15 inch battleship KMS BISMARCK (Kapitan Ernst Lindemann) […]
HMS KEMPENFELT was ordered under the 1913-14 naval building programme and was laid down at Cammel Laird’s yard on Merseyside. […]
The last Southampton Class cruiser to go out of service, HMS BIRMINGHAM (Captain S H Beattie VC RN) is seen […]
A marvellous scene and similar, of course, to Dixon’s other watercolour on this website, “VICTORY Firing the Coronation salute” – similar […]
This watercolour is typical of over one hundred similar original Tufnell watercolours we have for sale: many are also available […]
This famous battle cruiser pictured on “ a December afternoon at Scapa with island of Hoy and German Battle Cruisers […]
This is HMS VENUS when a member of the 17th Frigate Squadron (The Dartmouth Training Squadron, DTS) in the early […]
It was the early afternoon of 31st May 1916 and the light cruiser HMS GALATEA was proceeding east towards the […]
Cecil King, TD, RI, ROI, RBA was born in 1881 and died in December 1942 and was largely self taught […]
HMS BATTLEAXE is shown here early on in her career when she was fitted with a double squid A/S mortar […]
The well balanced lines of AJAX and her 4 sisters (LEANDER, ACHILLES, NEPTUNE and ORION were matched by the class’ […]
Although this watercolour is dated by the artist 1920, certain features here clearly show he has painted the battleship as […]
Captain H G Swanwick RN (d.1927) is better known for his agricultural paintings – shire horses ploughing, cottage and farmyard […]
HMS COMMONWEALTH was the third of the King Edward VII Class battleships to be ordered, her keel being laid at […]
A pleasant depiction of one of these beautiful light cruisers of the Dido Class, ships that were to earn their […]
For a Head of State and Head of the Commonwealth as busy as The Queen must necessarily be, the annual […]
That this is a Charles Pears oil on panel is not in doubt: he signed himself “CP” many times in […]
The early years of the twentieth century invariably saw one or sometimes two Royal Yachts lying to their buoys at […]
Dated 1925 this classic Frank Watson Wood with its glassy sea and moonlit sky features another classic – the dreadnought […]
HMS NELSON (Captain A U Willis DSO RN) is painted here by Frank Watson Wood in the summer of 1934 […]
“SAGITTA depart le regate”. This International 8 metre boat SAGGITA (they are known as “Eights”) was designed and built by […]
It was the squadron that arguably saved Beatty’s bacon at Jutland. There were five ships in the 5th Battle Squadron: […]
Another atmospheric First World War scene from the stable of Charles Dixon who painted many similar watercolours of those busy […]
HMS CHAMPION painted here off Southsea on England’s south coast, has just left Portsmouth naval base and is headed for […]
In the Spring of 1982 HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (Captain J C K Slater LVO RN) was completing fitting out when the […]
HMS NATAL and her sisters, ACHILLES, COCHRANE and WARRIOR were regarded by many of those who served in them as […]
This magnificent bow view of HMS REVENGE gives some idea of just how massive and seemingly impregnable these leviathans were. […]
Entitled “Early Morning, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH Leaving Portsmouth”. With ‘1929’ added by the artist (lower right), placing the actual occasion […]
This watercolour appears in Wyllie’s Sea Fights of the Great War (facing page 132). It shows LION (Captain A E […]
The story of the Battle of Coronel in 1914 is well known and much painted: this watercolour shows Admiral Sturdee’s […]
The 6 inch gun light cruiser HMS MANCHESTER (Captain H H Bousfield RN) in the livery of the East Indies […]
A beautiful, crisply executed watercolour painted on lightly toothed paper of a D Class light cruiser of the Delhi sub-group. HMS […]
Titled by Birchall “Ready to Join the Fleet”, in just discernible pencil is written, verso, “Southampton – Sheerness”. The 3 […]
Although dated by the artist 1919 this painting appears to show RENOWN as she was in 1917 when under the […]
We all know that W L Wyllie produced many hundreds of beautiful etchings: this, one of his smallest, has to […]
An especially fine Tufnell showing a wealth of detail: the destroyer appears to have passed through the boom defences which […]
The battleship HMS KING GEORGE V was laid down under the 1936 Naval Construction Programme, the name ship of a […]
First appearing in the 1921 Naval Estimates, HMS ADVENTURE (the 20th of the name in the Service’s history) was to […]
HMS BEDFORD, painted here by Alma Cull on a glassy flat sea, was one of ten ships of the Monmouth […]
The provenance of the drawing (it comes from the highly respected and well known specialist dealer in W L Wyllie’s […]
HMS RAMILLIES, one of the five R Class battleships, was launched in 1914. During the launch, she injured her rudder […]
This painting by John Hamilton MC shares a mirror image with one by the same artist that hangs in the […]
In Februuary 1915 with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Fisher’s Baltic project failed, Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, […]
A cracker of a Charles Dixon showing the ramparts of Grand Harbour and the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet, […]
This was a sad day – the premature paying off of the fixed wing carrier in 1978. Brought about as […]
Frank Watson Wood has painted here one of his seemingly favourite scenes: Plymouth Sound by moonlight with a capital ship […]
It was July 1919 and the Armistice which concluded the First World War had been signed 9 months earlier when […]
The artist, Chris Mayger (1919 – 1994), whose paintings are very hard to find these days, tells us on the […]
HMS LION is painted here by Frank Watson Wood in her familiar lair, the battle cruiser anchorage below the Forth […]
“Just occasionally” said Archibald in his definitive book on battleships “a ship is designed and built which, taken overall, is […]
After some detailed research it would appear that this scene almost certainly depicts the celebrated occasion when on 8th February […]
HMS RENOWN, launched in 1895 and first commissioned two years later was, we read many times, Admiral Jacky Fisher’s favourite […]
After a busy war and some very hairy times at the Battle of Jutland doing sterling work whilst weaving in […]
A classic Grand Fleet scene by William Wyllie which has not, its thought, been seen before in any form, certainly […]
Its hard to place the exact date of this scene because although dated by Frank Wood 1914, features on the […]
Quite simply, a gorgeous little watercolour by the master’s brush with a wealth of detail. It’s newly double mounted in […]
That this is indeed the 2nd Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet is in no doubt as Cull himself has written this, […]
This watercolour is dated (verso) 1937 when the heavy 8 inch cruiser HMS NORFOLK (Flag Captain L H K Hamilton […]
The watercolour is undergoing a light clean at present (Aug 2019)
HMS COLOSSUS and her sister HERCULES were both laid down on the same day in July 1909, some three and […]
Wearing Court Flags, HM Yacht VICTORIA & ALBERT escorted by the Royal Squadron, had taken passage through the Kiel canal along […]
The night of 30/31st July 2019 marked the 70th anniversary of the culmination of the incident on China’s River […]
Oscar Parkes, for many years editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships, shows us here HMS LION (Captain A A M Duff […]
It is very evident that Alma Cull had a strong link with, a fondness for, His Majesty’s Ship TEMERAIRE: she […]
The battleship HMS MARLBOROUGH (Captain George Ross RN) was flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney KCB KCMG, Vice Admiral […]
The 2nd Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet consisted, in 1935, of a mixture of classes of battleship. Wearing the flag of […]
On the occasion of the visit to Grear Britain of the French Republic’s President, Monsieur Raymond Poincare, in June 1913, […]
HMS NORFOLK and her sister DORSETSHIRE were half sisters of the Kent and London classes and all were commonly called […]
This watercolour painting, fortified by the odd touch of gouache, is very finely painted with accurate and detailed drafting and […]
Built by John Brown on the River Clyde in Scotland and completed in 1923 for the Eastern Telegraph Company as […]
The type of scene so beloved by Cull – a patrol weary dreadnought breasting her way through a big sea […]
A magnificent painting showing HMS SHEFFIELD (Captain JTFG Salt RN) in the waiting position to Replenish at Sea (RAS) from […]
