Amazing HMS RENOWN 31ST JAN. 1927 AUSTRALIAN CRUISE Equator Certificate

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Amazing HMS RENOWN 31 ST JANUARY 1927 AUSTRALIAN CRUISE Equator Certificate. Renown finished her reconstruction in September 1926 and she was assigned to the Battlecruiser Squadron until the ship was detached to convey Prince Albert of York to Australia between January and July 1927.THIS WAS THE TRIP HE WAS ON........... MEASURES 16" X 12 1/2"....................ON CARD...PHOTOS WILL SHOW YOU DETAIL OF PRINT AND DAMAGE ..THE DAMAGE AT TOP CENTRE IS THE WORST 1 1/2" TEAR ..THE OTHER IS CREASES 5 GOING DOWN AND 4 SMALL TEARS ON BOTTOM AND ON 2 ON RHS EDGE 1/4" AND A TEAR MORE HALF WAY UP ON RHS WHERE ON THE BACK THE OWNER HAS PUT A PIECE OF BLACK TAPE TO HOLD. IT TOGETHER LOOKS QUITE AN OLD JOB AND HAS WORKED WELL........... LOOKS LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO NAMES ARE W. L . WYLIE ( SEE UNDER FOR HIS HISTORY) ON BOTTOM LEFT WHO IS THE ARTIST AND C. HIGGINGHAM ?.....CERTIFICATE WAS GIVEN TO CECIL J WHITE TELEGRAPHIST...NAMES OF PLACES VISITED FROM LAS PALMAS TO STEWART ISLE ON LEFT ELEVEN NAMES IN ALL AND RHS FROM SYDNEY TO PORTSMOUTH ELEVEN PLACES IN ALL ......ALTOUGH DAMAGED IN PLACES MAINLY ON ITS PLAIN WHITE EDGES STILL FEELS A STRONG SOUND NICE TOGETHER PIECE OF HISTORY. WHICH WHEN PUT IN A FRAME ITS DAMAGED EDGES WILL BE COVERED AND THE CREASE FLATTENED OUT WITH GLASS WILL LOOK GREAT .WILL BE POSTED BETWEEN TWO STRONG BOARDS AND SENT RECORDED DELIVERY ..WILL POST OVERSEAS.....PLEASE EMAIL WITH ANY ?S OR REQUESTS FOR MORE DETAILED PHOTOS............. Designed by William Lionel Wyllie The frame measures approximately 17.5 x 13.5 inches with the etching measuring 13.5 x 9.5 inches. Born 5th July 1851, in London. The British marine artist William Lionel Wyllie was the son of the artist William Morison Wyllie, and Katherine Smythe (nee Benham). Wyllie showed artistic talent from an early age. He attended Heatherley’s art school until the age of fifteen, leaving to study at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Turner Medal at the age of eighteen. In the early 1870’s Wyllie became an illustrator for the Graphic. He held several exhibitions at galleries of the Fine Art Society and elsewhere. In 1889 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and exhibited his work their in 1901, an event which greatly enhanced his reputation. Wyllie spent much of his time at sea working for the White Star Shipping Line, and serving in the Royal Navy during WWI. Wyllie painted seascapes and coastal landscapes, in which his treatment of light and atmosphere was the predominant feature, bringing to the paintings a feeling of peace and tranquility. His watercolours and oils portrayed a wide range of maritime subjects, from destroyers and battleships to fishing boats and sailing dinghies. It was his etchings and watercolours showing working life on the Thames and the Medway that brought him widespread popularity. Later in his life he played an important role in the restoration of the Victory, and this led him to paint, somewhat uncharacteristically, the 42 foot panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the stern of the French ship of the line Neptune. He completed the panorama in 1930 with the assistance of his daughter Aileen. Wyllie died on the 6th April 1931 in Hampstead, and scouts from the 1st Portchester Sea Scout Troop, which he had founded, rowed his coffin across Portsmouth Harbour for his burial at Portchester Castle. read more

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