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Storm, Torquay
1989
oil on board
47h x 62.2w (cm)
Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog
Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports
Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Birds Eye View
RA Summer Exhibitions
- REPThis painting is based on sketches that Richard did on a visit to Torquay with his mother 65 years earlier.
They went there in January 1924 for his mother's health. The sun didn’t reach their house in Ilkley during the winter months which was not good for someone suffering from TB. You can read more about the trip to Torquay in Chapter 23 of Richard's autobiography.
He used the trip to sketch and paint. Sketches he did from his hotel room window of a ship in the harbour pounded by waves in a storm were not realised as paintings until several decades later - this one Storm Torquay (1989), another one that he showed in the same RA summer exhibition High Seas, Torquay (1989), and Torquay Storm (c1983).
