Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. All rights reserved.

HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour

1942

oil on canvas

76.2h x 127w (cm)

National Maritime Museum

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Birds Eye View

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Commissioned Works

Recto: signed and dated lower right: R. EURICH. 1942.

Alternatives:

Portsmouth after the Air Raids, with HMS Revenge Sailing Out [Bradford]

Portsmouth after the Air Raids with the Revenge Sailing Out []

HMS Revenge leaving Portsmouth after the Blitz [RE sales diary]

Tags:

All Works in Public Collections

Birds Eye View

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

Commissioned Works

England

Hampshire

Motifs

Narrative

Night

Official War Artist

Portsmouth

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The South

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Wartime

Subject

Flag

NMM

National Maritime Museum

Royal Navy

Sea

WW2

WWII

World War 2 World War II

barrage balloons

battleship

blitz

boats ships

bomb damage

buildings

chimney

ensign

fairground

ferris wheel

figure

good old bubbles

harbour

industrial

man

public collection

ruins

sailors rest

sea fort

seafort

ships

urban landscape

war artist

warships

water tower

Medium

Oil

HMS Revenge's movements around the time of the raid are documented at Naval_History.net linked in the References section at the bottom of the page.

- REP

7th January 1944: Had a nice letter from Victor Pasmore congratulating me on my ‘Portsmouth (with Revenge leaving)’. I am rather surprised at this.

- RE diary entries

Provenance & Events

COMMISSIONED • 1943

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

EXHIBITION • 1943

"National War Pictures"

National Gallery

GIFTED • [date unknown]

National Maritime Museum

by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC1571

SOLO SHOW • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 31; Bradford and Southampton venues only

SOLO SHOW • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

"Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day"

Imperial War Museum

Cat 13

SOLO SHOW • 20th Mar to 29th May 2004

"Sea Change - Paintings by Richard Eurich in War and Peace"

St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery

References:

Books

"Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks’ signed 1941 - A Wartime Incident by Richard Eurich (1903-1992), THE ELUSIVE MR BEARE AND OTHER ESSAYS"; Nigel Surry, Fortune Press, 2015

Collections

"National Maritime Museum"; [Object Details]

Reviews

"Illustrated London News"; [21 August 1943, illustration]

Other

"Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
"Art UK Curations 2"; [Artists and places: Richard Eurich in Dorset and Hampshire | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]