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Oil Painting HMS Warrior British First Ironclad Ship by John Steven Dews
REF: LA515521
£38,000
€45,555
$50,863
LoveAntiques Dealersince Mar 2017Approved item557 sales by dealerFree Delivery
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Large marine oil painting HMS Warrior First Ironclad Ship by John Steven Dews. Impress your clients & guests, make an art statement with this historical maritime historic ship masterpiece to display on your office wall space or home interior.
Title Historic “HMS Warrior-The First Ironclad Ship” By John Steven Dews c.1983.
Subject marine seascape view of the known historical Ironclad ship Hms Warrior was the first Ironclad ship that the British had built. A technoligical marvel of her era, as she was bigger and quicker also having more heavy armour then any other ship before her. The ship is in side profile heading right, steaming ahead on relative choppy high seas, some sailor crew figures are out on deck, 2 notable black funnels are pumping out thick black smoke. Also having 3 masts with all sails down, showing detailed rigging & all gun ports are open with cannons showing. 2 white longboats can be seen positioned towardes the ships stern side, with a 3 rd long boat shown resting above on the back of the aftercastle captains cabin. With the Union Jack ensign flag flying above. In the backround seagulls flying around with large tall steep mountains in the distance, with a sailing ship on the left flank & on the right flank in the foreground is a fishing sailing boat heading towards the shoreline, with a couple other sailing ships further back. The ship, wave action and sky have been captured by the artist so impeccably well. It makes you feel like you can feel the wind on your face.
Set in the original decorative gilt frame.
Signed J Steven Dews on the bottom corner area by the known British artist John Steven Dews.
Oil on canvas set in a fine original traditional decorative gilt frame which enhances this painting even further.
Hanging thread on the back ready for immediate wall display.
An excellent proportion sized frame being 91cm wide and 66cm high.
Artist Biography:- John Steven Dews 1949 - is a known British Postwar & Contemporary artist, he was born in Gods own country in the Northern shire of Yorkshire at the end of the 1940’s. His works are so sought after that is among the greatest presently still living maritime artists in the world. Dews had 2 siblings brothers, they all used to go and see there grandad who used to work in the Hull port, Dews spent a lot of time around the Hull docks, he was known to have studied in the Regional College of Art in Hull & he graduated in technical graphics & illustration.
After finishing his education he made his own art studio in an abandoned farmhouse by the Humber estuary, he carefully observed pictures & books about the sea & ships, absorbing all what he read and saw & he would then first produce many sketches. he created an amazing collection for his introductory exhibition in the mid 1970s’ which all sold fast. In 1977 he travelled to California & held an exhibition in San Francisco. Since then, he loves to exhibit at significant art galleries around the big smoke London and around the globe. His works have sold at auctions like Bonhams & Christie’s the current highest sold price for one of his woks was for the amount $273, 224 Us dollars for the painting The Battle of Trafalgar HMS Victory Breaking The Line.
The prestigious Marine Board of New South Wales selected Steven Dews to paint a work for them, also the Regatta New York Yacht Club. Steven loves to produce dramatic nautical paintings like the America’s Cup. Dews adores the sea & when he is not working he enjoys sailing, he is a sailor at heart an expert yachtsman. He presently resides in New Zealand. Dews is getting ready circumnavigate the globe in his new yacht. Dews has such great knowledge of sailing on the seas & he projects this experience to his marine works with such immense detail. He expresses his marine artistic style though his expert precise brush control to seize scenes of the skyline, seas also the wind conditions, his works are so prized. He is so busy that he is fully booked up for some years to come before he can take on any new commissions.
Ship History:- HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate, built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. She was the first British ironclad built ship and was named Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable Hms Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883.
She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to The Maritime Trust for restoration. The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouthas a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.
The launching of the steam-powered ship of the line Napoléon by France in 1850 began an arms race between France and Britain that lasted for a decade. The destruction of a wooden Ottoman fleet by a Russian fleet firing explosive shells in the Battle of Sinop, early in the Crimean War, followed by the destruction of Russian coastal fortifications during the Battle of Kinburn in the Crimean War by French armoured floating batteries, and tests against armour plates, showed the superiority of ironclads over unarmoured ships. France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire, upset the balance of power by neutralising the British investment in wooden ships of the line and started an invasion scare in Britain, as the Royal Navy lacked any ships that could counter Gloire and her two sisters.
The situation was perceived to be so serious that Queen Victoria asked the Admiralty if the navy was adequate for the tasks that it would have to perform in wartime. Warrior and her sister were ordered in response. The Admiralty initially specified that the ship should be capable of 15 kn(28 km/h; 17 mph), and have a full set of sails for worldwide cruising range. Iron construction was chosen as it gave the best trade-off between speed and protection; an iron hull was lighter than a wooden one of the same size and shape, giving more capacity for guns, armour and engines. The Chief Constructor of the Navy Isaac Watts and the Chief Engineer Thomas Lloyd designed the ship. To minimise risk they copied the hull design of the large wooden frigate HMS Mersey, modifying it for iron construction and to accommodate an armoured box, or citadel, amidships along the single gun deck, which protected most of the ship's guns. Ships with this configuration of guns and armour are classified as broadside ironclads.
The Warrior-class design used many well-proven technologies that had been used in ocean-going ships for years, including her iron hull, marine steam engine, and screw propeller; only her wrought-iron armour was a major technological advance. Naval architect and historian David K. Brown wrote, "What made [Warrior] truly novel was the way in which these individual aspects were blended together, making her the biggest and most powerful warship in the world." Faster, better armoured and harder to hit than her rivals, she was superior to any existing naval ship. The Hms Warrior is 380 ft 2 in (115.9 m) long between perpendiculars and 420 ft (128.0 m) long overall. She has a beam of 58 ft 4 in (17.8 m) and a draught of 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m). The ship displaces 9,137 long tons (9,284 t) and has a tonnage of 6,109 tons burthen. The ship's length made her relatively unmanoeuvrable, making it harder for her to use her strengthened stem for ramming, an ancient tactic that was coming back into use at the time.
The ends of the hull are subdivided by watertight transverse bulkheads and decks into 92 compartments, and the hull has a double bottom underneath the engine and boiler rooms The ship's crew comprised 50 officers and 656 ratings in 1863. The majority of the crew had to do physically demanding tasks; one such duty was the raising of the heaviest manually hauled anchors in maritime history. The day-to-day life of her crew differed little from those on the navy's traditional wooden-hulled vessels. The majority of the crew lived on the single gun deck of the Warrior; these crewmen slept in hammocks slung from the sides and deck beams, with up to 18 men between each pair of guns.
The officers berthed in the rear of the ship in small individual cabins; the wardroom was also the officers' mess. The captain had two spacious, well-furnished cabins. Of the ratings, 122 were Royal Marines. As an experiment during the ship's first commission, all of Warrior's marines were from Royal Marine Artillery; subsequently some marine infantrymen were assigned as was the usual naval practice. The marines manned the aft section of guns and slung their hammocks between the crew's accommodation and the officers' cabins.
Provenance 1983 Stacy Marks label stock number D 2803, Trinity House in Broadway, High end southern based auction, exhibited in the Famous Lord Hill Museum & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd.
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Height:
66 cm
Width:
91 cm
Depth:
6 cm
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Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Oil Painting HMS Warrior British First Ironclad Ship by John Steven Dews (LA515521) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being Late 20th Century
condition
Offered in fine used condition. Painting surface is very good overall condition, having some foxing staining and craquelure in areas. Canvas was relined around 20 years ago & in good condition. The frame which has general wear, scuffs & chips, commensurate with usage & age.
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