Charles Pears – Artist and Sailor with Ties to Cornwall | NMMC Charles Pears (1873-1958) was a marine painter and lithographer, born at Pontefract, Yorkshire. He worked initially as a black-and-white artist for magazines from the late 1890s, serving as a theatrical caricaturist for Pick-Me-Up. During World War I he was an Official War Artist for the Admiralty, a position he repeated during World War II, and he gradually established a reputation as a sound marine painter with a strong sense of design. Ezra Pound, writing as B. H. Dias, had this to say about his work in 1919: “One R.M. is obv…