Wartime
This set gathers together Richard's commissioned work for the Admiralty, war pictures he did independently and some drawings and paintings done as a young teenager in WW1. Little did Richard imagine then that he would be an official war artist in the next world shattering conflict.
The WW2 works not only include images of conflict and fighting but also other aspects of war such as harrowing portraits of imagined inmates of prison camps, and an image of a remote bombed-out house perched near the sea, with its immaculate vegetable patch still intact: destruction and creation side by side.
The Landing at Dieppe, 19th August 1942 (March 1942)
oil on panel - 121.9h x 175.3w (cm)
A Destroyer Rescuing Survivors (1942)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks, 1941 (1942)
oil on canvas - 78.7h x 127w (cm)
HMS Resolution, Portsmouth (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.9h x 35.5w (cm)
Portsmouth (1942)
pencil on paper - 26h x 20.3w (cm)
Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship (1942)
oil on canvas - 35.6h x 61w (cm)
Warship (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.6h x 35.6w (cm)
Warship (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.6h x 35.6w (cm)
Arrival of HMS Resolution (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.9h x 35.5w (cm)
HMS Resolution, Portsmouth (1942)
pencil on paper - 20.3h x 35.6w (cm)
Warship (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.6h x 35.6w (cm)
HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour (1942)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
The Raid on the Bruneval Radio Location Station, 27-28 February 1942 (1942)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
Refugee (1942)
oil on canvas - 20h x 15w (cm)
The Docks (1942)
pencil on paper - 21.6h x 35.6w (cm)
Naval Light Forces Going into Action (1942)
oil on canvas - 33h x 76w (cm)
Trawler Against Heinkel (1941)
oil on ? - 63.5h x 76.2w (cm)
Destroyer and Minesweeper (1941)
oil on ? - 35.6h x 60.7w (cm)
A Ship's Boat at Sea (1941)
oil on canvas - 35.6h x 62.2w (cm)