Roy Cross
(1924-2024)
On April 24, 2024 Roy passed away after a short illness, just a day after his 100th birthday...
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William Penn’s ship ‘WELCOME’ Surveys the Future City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682
U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, also known as ‘Old Ironsides,’ Off Long Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts, 1803
First Defense of the America’s Cup, 1870, Schooners AMERICA, MAGIC, and CAMBRIA
AMERICA Off the Needles, 1851
Clippership CELESTIAL Departing New York Harbor
Old Nantucket in the early 1840's - Ship ALPHA
The America’s Cup 1885 – PURITAN vs. GENESTA
The Great Tea Race of 1866 – FIERY CROSS and SERICA
Whaler IMPROVEMENT Leaving Nantucket
American Packetship ST. ANN Sailing Into Portsmouth, 1736
Clipper YOUNG AMERICA Leaving New York
Born in London April 23, 1924. His first interest was airplanes and he became a member of the Society of Aviation Artists in 1952. He was largely self-taught but did, for a time, study at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the St. Martin's School of Fine Arts .
By the end of the Second World War, he was a leading journalist and illustrator of aircraft subjects. In the 1960's his interest widened to the subject of historic sail. His commitment to marine paintings of this type grew as his aircraft interests waned, and since he held his first one-man show in 1973, he has made Marine Art a full time profession. His well researched and beautifully crafted paintings of historical maritime subjects can be seen in many public and private collections throughout America and England.
He was elected a full member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists in 1977, his first year of exhibition.