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David Rowlands Military Art
Military Prints  David Rowlands |
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Military Prints by historical artist David Rowlands by Cranston Fine Arts the military print company. David Rowlands has had a passion for sketching British soldiers and their equipment ever since he was a boy. After completing his studies at Manchester University in 1977, he joined the staff of the Reading Room at the National Army Museum, working full-time as a professional artist. Keenly interested in the history of British campaigns, uniforms and tactics, he has painted many historical battle scenes with great attention to accuracy and detail. This has resulted in widespread recognition of his work with the result that he has been commissioned to record the activities of many Regiments in the present day. These commissions have taken him frequently to Northern Ireland, as well as Germany, Cyprus, Hong Kong and Gibraltar. In 1991 David Rowlands was the only artist invited by the Army to visit the Gulf. Attached to a Warrior crew of 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, he observed the work of the various Arms at first hand, enabling him to complete many accurate paintings for Regiments and Corps engaged in the conflict. Early in 1993 he was the first war artist to visit Bosnia and record the British troops in Operation GRAPPLE 1. Invited by Headquarters National Support Element, he travelled extensively on convoys and sketched the operations from Split to Vitez and Travnik. Several paintings have been commissioned by the participating units, including one of 7 Armoured Workshop REME at Gornji Vakul. Over the past ten years David has been sent regularly to Iraq and Afghanistan for projects involving many of the British and Nato forces. He has probably spent as much time overseas gathering information for these projects as he has spent in the UK. He is certainly one of the major military artists of the past 20 years. Many of these fine paintings are now available as signed edtion art prints and canvases.
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Chindits landing at Broadway, Burma, 5th / 6th March 1944 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Assault on Iraqi Artillery Positions, 3rd Fusiliers Battle Group by David Rowlands. Objective Steel, 26th February 1991. |
Gun Lift at Mrkonjic Grad by David Rowlands. Personnel from the Joint Helicopter Support Unit controlling a 105mm Light Gun lift, with Boeing HC2 Chinook helicopters of the Royal Air Force, as part of the Implementation Force in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. This was during Operation RESOLUTE which commenced in December 1995. |
M109 Guns of the 40th Field Regiment Royal Artillery Approaching the Basra Road, Kuwait, 28th February 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Light Gun of the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery in action, Mount Igman, Bosnia, 30th August 1995 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
10th Regiment Royal Corps of Transport Group, Iraq 27th Feb 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
The Charge of the 1st Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders by David Rowlands. 1st Battalion in action at Escaut Canal, Belgium, May 1940. |
Heavy Mortars of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps in action at Mount Igman, Bosnia, August 1995. by David Rowlands. August 1995: Eerste Mortier Compagnie Korps Mariniers, Operatie PEGASUS. Mount Igman, near Sarajevo. |
The Lone Piper by David Rowlands. A lone Jacobite piper plays a last farewell to fallen comrades. |
Zulu! by David Rowlands. Zulu Company of the First Fusiliers Battle Group in the attack on Bridge 4, Basra, on the evening of 22nd March 2003 |
Scimitars of the 16th / 5th the Queens Royal Lancers in Action by David Rowlands. The 16th / 5th shown during the operation Objective Lead, The Gulf war 26th February 1991. |
Ambush at Kardalan Fields, 18th January 2007 by David Rowlands. 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines on the Shatt al Arab, Basra, Iraq, during Operation TELIC 9. |
Cobra Attack by David Rowlands. AH-1 Whiskey Cobras of the US marine Corps in Action, Kuwait, February 1991. |
19th Regiment Royal Artillery - BRITARTYBAT by David Rowlands. Operation Pegasus and Deliberate Force, Bosnia Hercegovina, June - December 1995. |
Siege of Pensacola by David Rowlands. Gunners of Captain W. Johnstons Company, 4th Battalion Royal Artillery, tenaciously defend the Queens Redoubt against the Spanish army. |
M109 Howitzers of 127 (Dragon) Field Battery Royal Artillery by David Rowlands. Coming into action in Iraq, February 1991. |
The First Tank versus Tank Action by David Rowlands. The Mark IV Tank of Lt. F. MItchell MC, 1st battalion Tank Corps engages A7V tanks at Villers-Bretonneux, 24th April 1918. |
The Artillery Raids, 18th / 23rd February 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
The Battle of Imjin, Crash Action by David Rowlands. On 25th April 1951, Lieutenant John Mole, in command of the remaining section of the Royal Ulster Rifles 3 inch mortars, dismounted in the open and replied with rapid mortar fire on to the slopes from which a hail of machine-gun fire swept the valley floor. The surviving tanks of C Squadron the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars kept up a heavy fire on the Chinese formations swarming down the valley slopes. |
The Battle of Beda Fomm by David Rowlands. Cruiser Tanks of 1st Royal Tank Regiment at the Battle of Beda Fomm. |
River Patrol, Iraq by David Rowlands. 1st Battalion The Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Operation TELIC II, June - November 2003. |
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