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Charles Pears (9 September 1873 – 28 January 1958) was a British painter, illustrator and artist. ==Biography== Born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, he studied nearby at East Hardwick and Pomfret College,〔〔Benezit, Emmanuel (2012) ''Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators'' , p202, Oxford University Press〕 where he started a lifelong appreciation of Canaletto.〔 Active from 1890, his worked as an illustrator throughout his career. His early illustrated works were included in periodicals such as ''The Yellow Book'', ''Punch'', ''The Graphic'' and ''Salt-Water Poems and Ballads'' by John Masefield.〔 Pears is best known as a marine painter, where he often signed his work as ''Chas Pears''. Pears was the first elected President of the Society of Marine Artists.〔 His works were exhibited from 1904 to 1939 in London having moved there, and he also wrote a number of books on small boat cruising. A commissioned officer in the Royal Marines during the First World War, Pears worked also worked as an official War Artist during both the First and Second World Wars.〔 His Second World War poster entitled ''"MV ''San Demetrio'' gets home"'' was issued by the Post Office Savings Bank, with the original artwork presently part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum. From 1913 to 1936, Pears was a prolific poster artist, working for London Underground.〔(Artist – Charles Pears ), London Transport Museum website. Retrieved 4 September 2012.〕 He also created posters for the Empire Marketing Board,〔 the Metropolitan Railway, Southern Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LNER, GWR. He latterly created works for British Railways. Pears moved to Saint Mawes, Cornwall in semi-retirement, and died in Truro on 28 January 1958.〔http://www.smallcraft.net/research/the_sailors/charles_pears/〕 Today his artworks are held in the collections of the London Transport Museum,〔 National Maritime Museum, National Railway Museum,〔(Collections Online – Pears, Charles ), Science Museum Group. Retrieved 4 September 2012.〕 Imperial War Museum,〔Imperial War Museum (Collections Search for "Charles Pears" ), ''iwm.org.uk'' Retrieved 8 March 2013.〕 and Tate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-pears-2200 )〕 He is commemorated in a prize at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the Charles Pears Memorial Award.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Pears」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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