The most extensive military art prints and paintings website covers all major periods in history from ancient & medieval through to present day. Military art is owned by Cranston Fine Arts.

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You can also contact us for painting and print valuation (including insurance purposes) and requests for historical information on military subjects, but please note there is a charge of £20.00 ($32) for this service. Payment and all correspondence must be by email. paying by visa or mastercard

 WELCOME TO CRANSTON FINE ARTS CENTRAL ONLINE SHOPPING CART NETWORK.  SHOPPING FOR MILITARY, AVIATION, NAVAL, SPORTING, LANDSCAPE AND WILDLIFE PRINTS AND PAINTINGS AS WELL AS OVER 4,000 BOOKS AND OTHER MILITARY GIFTS.

CRANSTON FINE ARTS THE MILITARY ART PRINT COMPANY  HAVE OVER 48 HISTORICAL MILITARY AND OTHER ART WEBSITES. SHOWING OVER 30,000 ITEMS.  THESE WEBSITES HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT TYPES OF WEBSITES TO SUIT ALL COLLECTORS AND MILITARY ENTHUSIASTS. WE HAVE TRIED TO MAKE THINGS EASY FOR YOU TO FIND THE EXACT ITEM YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.

BECAUSE WE HAVE SO  MANY ITEMS IT WAS NECESSARY TO OPERATE A MANUAL ORDER FORM.  WHICH REQUIRED THE CUSTOMER TO WRITE DOWN THE TITLES, ARTIST , CODE NUMBER  AND PRICE (OR AT LEAST THREE OF THESE REQUIREMENTS).

BUT WE HAVE NOW AVE STARTED TO OPERATE A ONLINE BASKET (CART) SYSTEM WHICH MAKES LIFE EASIER.  ALL 48 WEBSITES WILL BE SOON CONNECTED TO THE CENTRAL BASKET SYSTEM. AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ORDER FROM ANY OF THE WEBSITES. AND PUT THE ITEMS IN ONE SINGLE BASKET.  AS LONG AS YOU KEEP ONE OF THE SHOPPING CART WINDOWS OPEN.

HERE IS HOW TO SHOP IN OUR REVOLUTIONARY COMBINED WEBSITES.

YOU WOULD HAVE ENTERED ONE OF OUR WEBSITES.  

1.  WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND THE ITEM YOU LIKE, CLICK ON THE TEXT UNDER THE IMAGE WHO STATES THE VARIATION OF THE ITEM YOU WANT. I.E  SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF CANVAS EDITION ETC.

THIS WILL THEN TRANSFER YOU TO THE SHOPPING CART PAGE FOR THIS ITEM AND SHOW YOU A LARGER PICTURE OF THE ITEM. IF YOU WANT TO PURCHASE CLICK ON THE PURCHASE BOTTOM ON THE PAGE.

IF YOU ONLY WANT THIS ONE ITEM THEN PROCEED TO CHECK OUT AND FILL OUT YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS OF OUR SECURE ORDER SITE,.  IT IS WORTH FILLING OUT THE PART TO BECOME A RETURNING CUSTOMER  SO FOR YOUR NEXT VISIT YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO PUT YOUR ADDRESS DETAILS AGAIN, WE WILL HOLD THEM ON OUR DATABASE. THIS INFORMATION IS NOT PAST OR SUED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.)

IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE SHOPPING YOU CAN DO THIS BY PUTTING THE SHOPPING CART DOWN  ONTO THE TOOL BAR. AND THE SITE YOU WERE ON WILL STILL BE THERE FOR YOU TO CONTINUE BROWSING. YOU CAN GO TO ANOTHER AGE AND CLICK ON ANOTHER ITEM IT WILL THEN  OPEN ANOTHER WINDOW FOR THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU A LARGER IMAGE AND IF YOU WANT TO PURCHASE CLICK ON THE PURCHASE BUTTON.  YOU CAN VIEW YOUR BASKET AT ANY TIME.  BUT YOU MUST REFRESH THIS PAGE SO IT WILL SHOW BOTH ITEMS TOGETHER.

YU0 CAN CONTINUE DOING THIS OR EVEN GOING TO ANOTHER ONE OF OUR WEBSITES. AND DOING THE SAME. BUT REMEMBER TO REFRESH THE BASKET ONCE YOU HAVE ADDED ANOTHER ITEM.   EVERY TIME YOU RETURN TO THE SHOPPING CART WEBSITE. YOU WILL HAVE OPENED ANOTHER WINDOW. YOU CAN CLOSE THE OLD WINDOWS ONCE YOU HAVE REFRESHED THE BASKET. BUT REMEMBER TO ALWAYS KEEP ONE OF THEM  OPEN.

YOU CAN ALSO STAY ON OUR SHOPPING CART WEBSITE   (  www.directart.co.uk  )  and you can search through the items by artist If known ) or by category.  but do remember there are hundreds of prints.)  soon. there will be listings on this site for all periods which you may want to use. but these are in the process of being constructed.

WE DO ALSO HAVE OUR OLD MANUAL SECURE ORDER FORMS.  WHICH CAN BE USED, IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH OUR NEW SYSTEM OR IF YOU PREFER THEM  CLICK HERE TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SECURE ORDER MANUAL FORMS . 

THIS SECURE MANUAL ORDERING FORM IS ALSO USED FOR SOME ITEMS WHICH ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE AROUND LONG SUCH AS OUR SPECIAL OFFERS.  JUST CLICK ON THE TEXT STATING MANUAL ORDER FORM AND YOU CAN ORDER ITEMS THE OLD WAY.

To see full range of aviation, military and naval prints we recommend these catalogues.

CRANSTON FINE ART CATALOGUES

Cranston produce ten Book Catalogues showing their full range of over 2100 military, naval and Aviation images. You can order these books from this site.

VOLUME ONE BOOK CATALOGUE, Showing over 200 military images plus text on the Victorian British artists, (Butler, Beadle, Woodville, Wollen, and Barker and many others) main subjects, Classic British Colonial, Napoleonic and Crimean. Price £7

VOLUME TWO. Showing over 140 colour images plus information of the great French Artist (Meissonier, Detaille, de Neuville and others). Periods covered: Napoleonic, Franco Prussian, American Civil war and a mixture of others. Price £7

VOLUME THREE Showing over 200 images, from Ancient, Napoleonic, Modern, WW1, WW2, and a mixture of other periods, including Aviation, and Naval subjects. Price £7

VOLUME FOUR showing over 120 images plus a cross reference by Period and artist of the first four catalogues. Periods covered: Ancient, WW2, and Naval items of Napoleon and mixture of other subjects. Price £5.00

VOLUME FIVE Showing 180 images mostly modern and World War Two, including Naval and Aviation. Price £7.00

VOLUME SIX Showing over 200 images from all periods. Price £7.00

VOLUME SEVEN  With over 200 images and full print listing by artist price £7.

VOLUME EIGHT Showing 140 new images. Special price £5.00.

VOLUME NINE Dedicated to the military and aviation art of David Pentland. to be released August 2001. Price £5.00.

VOLUME TEN Showing over 250 images including the new range of canvas art prints to be released September 2001. Price £8.00. Place your advance order now.

Post; please add £3 per order for overseas orders for recorded fee plus 50 pence per catalogue for Europe and £1 per catalogue for the rest of the world.

We recommend the following websites for these special historical periods: