Charles David Cobb

British, 1921 - 2014

Biography[Charles] David Cobb was a British marine and landscape artist who originally studied at the Nautical College Pangebourne and later studied art with landscape painter [Robert] Borlase Smart. During the second world war Cobb was commander of a motor torpedo boat in the North Sea and would later become an official war artist in the 1980s during the Argentinian War when he was based in the Falklands.

In 1954 Cobb and his wife Jean Main, also an artist, settled in a cottage in New Forest where he loved and painted for 54 years. Jean became an active environmentalist for the region and helped in protecting areas of the park from being over developed.

Cobb's reputation as a marine artist grew and he was President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London from 1978 - 1983. He was also a commercial artist whose images were well known on British Railways campaigns featuring local land and seascapes and as the painter for the popular British Seagull outboard motors.

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