King’s College Looking Eastwards from the Backs: Early Summer
     

King’s College Looking Eastwards from the Backs: Early Summer

1946

Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.2 cm

Unknown collection (see timeline)

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Aka: Clare and King's, Cambridge [RE sales diary]

Cambridge Cambridgeshire England The South King’s College, University of Cambridge

According to Richard's sales diary there are three Cambridge pictures, all paid for by Kenneth Harrison, a Fellow at King's.

King’s College Looking Eastwards from the Backs (1946) was paid for in 1946. Richard also mentions it in his day diary:  "a large swan came buzzing over down on to the water in front of my subject this morning. It was perfect, such a swoop and curve and stretch of wings.”

Trinity College, the Wren Library and River Cam (1946) was also paid for in 1946.

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, by Candlelight (1947-49) was commissioned early in 1947 but not …

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According to Richard's sales diary there are three Cambridge pictures, all paid for by Kenneth Harrison, a Fellow at King's.

King’s College Looking Eastwards from the Backs (1946) was paid for in 1946. Richard also mentions it in his day diary:  "a large swan came buzzing over down on to the water in front of my subject this morning. It was perfect, such a swoop and curve and stretch of wings.”

Trinity College, the Wren Library and River Cam (1946) was also paid for in 1946.

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, by Candlelight (1947-49) was commissioned early in 1947 but not finished and paid for until early spring 1949.

RE Diary / REP-PC

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Provenance

COMMISSIONED | 1946

by Kenneth Harrison, Fellow at King's College, Cambridge for 200 guineas

IN COLLECTION | January 1994

Julia Mankowitz

EXHIBITED | 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

"The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992" - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)

Cat 39; loaned by Julia Mankowitz

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Provenance:

  • COMMISSIONED - 1946 - by Kenneth Harrison, Fellow at King's College, Cambridge for 200 guineas
  • IN COLLECTION - January 1994 - Julia Mankowitz

Exhibitions:

  • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994 - "The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)
    Cat 39; loaned by Julia Mankowitz

Notes:

  • None recorded.

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