Troops at Balliol, Second World War
1947
oil on canvas
89.8h x 165.1w (cm)
- John Jones (Balliol) and REPThis painting was commissioned in early 1946 and delivered late in 1947 [RE diaries]. John Jones, former Balliol Dean, comments: "The commission was a thank offering to the College from a very distinguished Balliol man, Vincent Massey [first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada] whose sons had survived the war against the odds. The painting originally dominated a semi-private dining room known as the Massey Room. The grey suited figure in the group on the left is Lord Lindsay (Master of Balliol College), the man in the grey suit centre right is J. N. Bryson (Fellow of Balliol) and the figure in the white jacket is Giles Alington of University College."
See also Dunkirk Beaches, May 1940 (1940), Staithes, Yorkshire (1938) and The Frozen Tarn (1940)
Provenance & Events
References:
Archive
- "Art UK"; [artuk.org]
Reviews
- "Annual Record"; pub. Balliol College, University of Oxford, 2021 [pg. 4-5]
- "The Garden Quad in Wartime"; by John Jones, article in Floreat Domus, published by Balliol College, University of Oxford, 2018 [article and illustrations on pages 30-31]
Collections
- "Art UK Stories"; [The unexpected poetry of Richard Eurich's paintings]
Books
- "Oxford’s War, 1939-1945"; by Ashley Jackson, pub: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024, ISBN 978 1 85124 613 7 [Plate 23]
Other
- "Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
