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

The British Power Boat Company

1941

oil on canvas

76.2h x 127w (cm)

National Maritime Museum

Narrative

Official War Artist

Wartime

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Seascapes | Coastal Scenes

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Commissioned Works

Alternatives:

The British Power Boat Company, busy Harbour and Camouflaged Buildings []

British Power Boat Works, Hythe [RE diary]

Tags:

All Works in Public Collections

Commissioned Works

England

Hampshire

Hythe

Narrative

Official War Artist

Seascapes / Coastal Scenes

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The South

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Wartime

Subject

140

63-foot

70-foot

Flag

NMM

National Maritime Museum

Royal Air Force

Sea

WW2

WWII

World War 2 World War II

aeroplanes

aircraft

anti-submarine

barbed wire

boat hook

boats ships

camouflage

cockpit

dinghy

factories

factory

fields

guns

harbour

high-speed

jetty

launch

motor boat

motor gunboats

motorboats

public collection

rowing boat

sailors

seaplane

slipway

war

war artist

wartime

whaleback

Medium

Oil

Provenance & Events

COMMISSIONED • 1941

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

GIFTED • [date unknown]

National Maritime Museum

by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC1570

SOLO SHOW • 1st Jun to 26th Aug 1951

"RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS by RICHARD EURICH, A.R.A."

City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall

Cat 32; lent by The Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, London

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

"Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day"

Imperial War Museum

Cat 15

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

"Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time"; by Jenny Uglow, Publisher : Faber & Faber; Main edition (4 Nov. 2021), 0571354157, 978-0571354153 [illustrated]
"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]

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]