Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633

Attack on a Convoy Seen from the Air

1941

oil on canvas

76h x 101.4w (cm)

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Birds Eye View

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Commissioned Works

The Art of Richard Eurich

Recto: signed lower right: R. EURICH. 1941

Alternatives:

Convoy attacked from the air - near the Needles [RE sales diary]

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All Works in Public Collections

Birds Eye View

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

Commissioned Works

England

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Motifs

Narrative

Needles

Official War Artist

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The South

Themes

Wartime

Subject

IWM

Imperial War Museum

Sea

WW2

WWII

World War 2 World War II

aeroplanes

aircraft

attack

battle

bombers

clouds

fighter

merchant navy

merchant ship

military ship

parachute

public collection

ships

smoke

war

war artist

warships

wartime

Medium

Oil

8th January 1942: Went to the War Artist Show at National Gallery. “ My large Dunkirk [Dunkirk Beaches, May 1940] looked frightful, made me feel quite sick. The Convoy from the Air looked none too bad.”

- RE diary entry

From an interview done with Richard for the Imperial War Museum in about 1990
"You’re above the cloud and you see things down through the cloud on the convoy off the Isle of Wight going up the Channel and being attacked also from the air. This is entirely a picture from imagination that I was asked to do. And when the RAF officials saw it they were so surprised that I had never been up in the air."

- IWM / REP