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Richard decided to start painting the sea again, a subject he loved, and one that he had hardly tackled since starting at the Slade five years earlier.

At this period sea paintings were very much frowned upon. It was not the done thing. If one went round the exhibitions one found that still lives of aspidistras and guitars and things of that sort were the OK’d subjects.

He did a few sea and harbour paintings in Lyme Regis in Dorset in 1930 and then went on doing more and more of Lyme Regis and of other west country ports through 1931 and 1932.