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.
Raid on Vaagso, Norway, 26 - 27 December 1941 (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Portland Bill, 1940 (1941)
oil on canvas laid on board - 31h x 48w (cm)
Dunkirk Beaches, May 1940 (1941)
oil on canvas - 101.8h x 152.5w (cm)
Rescue of the Only Survivor of a Torpedoed Merchant Ship (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Attack on a Convoy Seen from the Air (1941)
oil on canvas - 76h x 101.4w (cm)
A Motor Boat of the British Power Boat Company, Hythe (1941)
oil on canvas - 68.5h x 81.5w (cm)
HMS Resolution Returning to Portsmouth (1941)
oil on ? - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Night Attack Over Southampton Water (1941)
oil on ? - 33h x 60.7w (cm)
A Destroyer Escort in Attack (1941)
oil on canvas - 50.5h x 101.5w (cm)
The Boats Were Machine-Gunned (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.6h x 101.6w (cm)
The British Power Boat Company (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Whitby (1940)
pencil on paper - 20.3h x 21.9w (cm)
Warship (1940)
pencil on paper - 21.6h x 35.6w (cm)
Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime (1940)
oil on canvas - 63.5h x 76.2w (cm)
Dunkirk Beaches (1940)
oil on cardboard - 22.8h x 45.7w (cm)
Whitby in Wartime (1940)
oil on canvas - 63.5h x 76w (cm)
Dunkirk Beach, 1940 (1940)
oil on board - 28h x 50.8w (cm)
Air Fight over Portland (1940)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940 (1940)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.6w (cm)