David Cobb (15 March 1921 – 18 June 2014) was a British marine artist and served as President of the
Royal Society of Marine Artists
The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) is an association of artists in London, England, that promotes contemporary marine art. This includes painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.Atlantic convoys. Between 1943–1945, he commanded
MTBs
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, working in the North Sea.
Cobb began his painting career at Newlyn and then worked in the
Sussex
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village of Itchenor (where he lived for some years) until he moved to live near Brockenhurst in the New Forest in the 1950s. He lived with his wife, Jean, until she died in 2008.
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