| Com colaboração de Rodrigues Vaz, que encontrou na Feira da Ladra, em Lisboa. Charles E. Turner (b.1893; d.1965) |
| Charles E Turner was born in Lancaster, but based in Liverpool, an artist who specialised in landscape and marine views. Proficient in watercolours and oils, Turner exhibited at the RA in London as well as Manchester and Liverpool. Turner fought in both the First and Second World Wars, as a captain in the Fleet Air Arm, combining active service with service as a war artist, signing his work C.E. Turner. Inter-war Turner had developed series of illustrations for Thomas Forman and Cunard, becoming a 'series of excellent postcards'. His best-known work, however, dates from the two wars. Turner designed for Churchill Cigar Boxes, and, alongside paintings demonstrating his first-hand experience of combat, produced illustrations for Illustrated London News and Sphere magazines. These included 'closely observed and highly detailed' naval actions, which presented 'a heightened sense of the drama of events such as this, and these appeared as double-page spreads'. He died on April 14 1965, now many of his oil and watercolour paintings of the two World Wars are preserved in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London, and at the IWM, London. Information collated from: National Maritime Museum, 'Biography of Charles E Turner', http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=97, accessed October 3 2003; Luxury Liners of the Past, 'Postcard Artists', http://www.geocites.com/luxury_liners/Artists.html, accessed October 3 2003; National Maritime Museum, 'HMS Montrose Arriving at Reykjavik, Iceland', http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?letter=h&ID=BH…, accessed October 3 2003 |
Recolhi informações de que depois da primeira guerra mundial teria encontrado uma rapariga por quem se apaixonou e foi viver para África. Pelos vistos deve ter passado por Angola.
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