Collector's Journal — Naval History
The Sinking of Yamato: Eric Tufnell and the Final Sortie of Japan’s Great Battleship
7 April 1945 Art Research Battle of the East China Sea Battleship Yamato Captain Kosaku Aruga Collectors Journal Commander Eric Tufnell Eric Tufnell Historical Art Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese Battleships Maritime Art Naval History Naval Painting Naval Watercolour Okinawa Operation Ten-Go Pacific War Parker Gallery Provenance Research Royal Navy Second World War Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito WW2 Naval Art Yahagi Yamato
In 1963, Royal Navy Commander and marine artist Eric Tufnell painted the destruction of Yamato during Operation Ten-Go, only eighteen years after the battle. The original Parker Gallery correspondence and invoice survive, documenting the commission for a private collector.
RMS Lusitania: Captain William Turner and the Last Voyage of a Cunard Legend
Art Research Atlantic Liners British Maritime History Captain William Thomas Turner Collectors Journal Criterion Auctioneers Cunard Cunard Line Edwardian Ocean Liners First World War Lusitania Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval History Ocean Liners Provenance Research RMS Lusitania Ship Portrait U-20 Walther Schwieger William Turner WW1
An atmospheric marine portrait remembers RMS Lusitania as the magnificent Cunard liner she had been, opening the story of Captain William Thomas Turner, her final Atlantic crossing and one of the defining maritime tragedies of the First World War.
