A. B. Cull
Introduction


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**Alma Claude Burlton Cull** (1880–1931\) was an English marine painter who worked in [watercolours](/wiki/Watercolours "Watercolours") and [oils](/wiki/Oil_painting "Oil painting"). He specialised in painting [Royal Navy](/wiki/Royal_Navy "Royal Navy") ships.

Cull exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/wiki/Royal_Academy "Royal Academy"), the [Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours](/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_Painters_in_Watercolours "Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours"), the Walker Art Gallery and the London Salon. In his retirement he lived at [Lee\-on\-the\-Solent](/wiki/Lee-on-the-Solent "Lee-on-the-Solent") in [Hampshire](/wiki/Hampshire "Hampshire"); his widow continuing to live there after 1931\. For safekeeping she stored his unsold works in his studio in [Old Portsmouth](/wiki/Old_Portsmouth "Old Portsmouth"), where they were destroyed by enemy bombs in 1940 during the [Second World War](/wiki/Second_World_War "Second World War"). Some of his work is exhibited at the [National Maritime Museum](/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum "National Maritime Museum") in [Greenwich](/wiki/Greenwich "Greenwich").

Cull was a contemporary of the prolific [William Lionel Wyllie](/wiki/William_Lionel_Wyllie "William Lionel Wyllie") RA. Cull's paintings are much rarer than those by Wyllie and are regarded as being on a par with Wyllie's. King [Edward VII](/wiki/Edward_VII "Edward VII") commissioned some of his paintings. Cull paintings are sought after and only occasionally appear at auctions.


What specific types of Royal Navy ships did Cull paint?