{{short description|English painter}} {{Use British English|date=July 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox artist | name = Charles de Lacy | image = ILN0-1909-1225-0034-21 Charles de Lacy.png | image_size = | caption = Charles de Lacy in 1909, while contributing to The Illustrated London News | birth_name = Charles John de Lacy | birth_date = 1856 | birth_place = Sunderland, County Durham | death_date = 13 December 1929 (aged 73)<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |work=The Times |page=1 |date=17 December 1929 }}</ref> | death_place = Epsom, Surrey | known_for = Marine art | training = The National Gallery | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }}
'''Charles John de Lacy''' (1856 – 13 December 1929) was one of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery and was regularly commissioned by Elswick, Tyne and Wear shipbuilder W. G. Armstrong Whitworth. thumb|''Minas Geraes'' (1908)
==Life== Son of Robert de Lacy, a professor of music, and his wife Eliza,<ref name="lal_10168"/> Charles de Lacy was born in 1856 in Sunderland, County Durham, and grew up in the Bishopwearmouth area of the city. Although he would do much work in that area, by 1870 his family had relocated from the North East of England to Lambeth in London.<ref name="lal_10168">{{cite web |url=http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/10168/charles-j-de-lacy/ |title=Charles J. de Lacy: Artist |website=Look and Learn History Picture Library |date=27 June 2011}}</ref> While in Lambeth he married Alice Harriet Hill in 1880 and they had two daughters, Constance Rosamond De Lacy (b. 1881) and Irene Valerie Cristoforo De Lacy (b. 1901).<ref name="lal_10168"/> In the matter of his death 1936 is often cited;<ref name="askart" /> however, the evidence suggests 1929 is correct.<ref name="lal_10168" /> He died in Epsom, Surrey.
He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889,<ref name="askart">{{cite web |url=http://www.askart.com/askart/d/charles_john_de_lacy/charles_john_de_lacy.aspx |title=Charles John de Lacy (1856 – c.1936) |website=Ask Art |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> having undertaken training at The National Gallery.<ref name="askart" /> Magazines such as The Illustrated London News were among early patrons.<ref name="askart" />
Sources vary regarding the correct spelling of the surname: "de Lacy" or "de Lacey". Three of the cited sources say "de Lacy" (including Art UK).<ref>{{Art UK bio|retrieved=22 February 2017|name=Charles John de Lacy}}</ref> The Royal Museums at Greenwich (including the National Maritime Museum) use both forms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12161.html |website=Royal Museums Greenwich |title=Collections: ''HMS ''Vindictive'' at Zeebrugge, 23 April 1918'' |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> In the 1911 census entry in his own hand is written Charles John De Lacy and he says of himself "Artist, Painter and Press artist".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findmypast.co.uk/CensusShowPhotoImageServlet?imageName=b8b99e5919a116e2be2bfe1ec58a9b1227aa16f15be16a8f8b995b5eac1d5e00&censusYear=1911&imageStamp=17a32b1a88d586d496de603eaed6256feea0b491db03610a58ec0160d6411bc75e5f8418f19b5123&desc=1911 |title=1911 Charles De Lacy census return |website=Find my Past |access-date=12 June 2013 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Individual notable works==
*''The Battle Against the Spanish Armada'' *''The ''Kinfauns Castle'' as a Troopship'' (National Maritime Museum)<ref>{{cite web |title=Your Paintings: ''The ''Kinfauns Castle'' as a Troopship''|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-kinfauns-castle-as-a-troopship-174928 |website=BBC |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> *''HMS ''Vindictive'' Storming Zeebrugge Mole'' (during the Zeebrugge Raid) which hangs in the Britannia Royal Naval College.<ref>{{cite web |title=Your Paintings: ''HMS ''Vindictive'' Storming Zeebrugge Mole'' |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/hms-vindictive-storming-zeebrugge-mole-94670 |website=BBC |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> *''The Sinking of the'' Lusitania<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_200885/Charles-John-de-Lacy/The-Sinking-of-the-Lusitania |website=WikiGallery |title=''The Sinking of the Lusitania''}}</ref> *''"The Funeral of queen Victoria" Porthmouth 1st February 1901''
Much of his work was done as book illustration or as commercial art for shipbuilders. Amongst major publishing names who used his material were Frederick Warne & Co, Thomas Nelson, Cassell, Methuen Publishing and S.P.C.K.<ref name="lal_10168" /> thumb|''Mist in port, London'' (1881)
==Selected public collections holding de Lacy material== *The National Maritime Museum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;searchTerm=Charles_J_de_Lacey |title=National Maritime Museum catalogue search results}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/search-results/?search_word=de+Lacey&x=0&y=0 |title=Royal Museums Greenwich search results |access-date=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616002626/http://www.rmg.co.uk/search-results/?search_word=de+Lacey&x=0&y=0 |archive-date=16 June 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> *Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums **Archive item 450/1{{#tag:ref|Archive item 450/1<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> is a bound collection of W G Armstrong Whitworth printed launch ephemera. An example is ''Minas Geraes''. Its subject is the Brazilian battleship ''Minas Geraes''. Another example is a pair covering different HMS ''Invincible''s.|group="Note"}} ***Brazilean scout (2 images)<ref name="TWAM450/1">{{cite book |title=W G Armstrong Whitworth Launch Ephemera |publisher=Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums |id=Item 450/1}}</ref> ***HMS ''Invincible'' (2 images)<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> ***Brazilian battleship ''Minas Geraes'' (2 images)<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> ***Argentine gunboat ''Parana''<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> ***Argentine armoured gunboat ''Rosario''<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> ***HMS ''Superb'' (3 images)<ref name="TWAM450/1" /> **Archive item 696/7/15{{#tag:ref|''Elswick 1911'' has been used as the cover of Armstrong's River Empire. Archives item 696/7/15 which also contains a De Lacy of the Chinese ''Chao Ho''.<ref name="TWAM696/7/15" />|group="Note"}} ***''Elswick 1911''<ref name="TWAM696/7/15">{{cite book |title=Archive item 696/7/15 |publisher=Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums}}</ref> ***''Chao Ho''<ref name="TWAM696/7/15" /> *Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum<ref>{{cite web |title=Your Paintings: ''The Pool of London'' |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-pool-of-london-58276 |website=BBC |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> *Cowes Maritime Museum<ref>{{cite web |title=Your Paintings: ''The Destroyer ''Forester'' off Constantinople'' |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/destroyer-forester-off-constantinople-16694 |website=BBC |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref>
==Further reading== {{commons category|Charles John De Lacy}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/artist50430/Charles-John-de-Lacy/page-1 |title=Charles John de Lacy |website=WikiGallery}} *{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Sea Painters |first=Edward H H |last=Archibald |year=1989 |isbn=1851490477}} *{{cite book |title=Armstrong's River Empire: Tyne Shipyards that supplied the world |url=http://www2.newcastle.gov.uk/tbp.nsf/BookSearchCMS/B9F99A46AE7C1D2D8025765C00346676 |first1=Richard E |last1=Keys |first2=Ken |last2=Smith |publisher=Tyne Bridge Publishing |location=Newcastle |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-857951-48-6 |pages=cover, 37 |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004100245/http://www2.newcastle.gov.uk/tbp.nsf/BookSearchCMS/B9F99A46AE7C1D2D8025765C00346676 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=dead }} – two images from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums item 679/7/15: ''Elswick 1911'' (cover) and ''Chao Ho (page 37)''
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