1933
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.5 cm
Whereabouts unknown
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Recto: Signed and dated lower left: RICHARD EURICH 1933
Aka: Fishing Boats Entering Whitby Harbour with Figures on the Quayside; Fishing Boats, Whitby
Verso: Inscribed with the artist's name on the stretcher
England The North Whitby Yorkshire Billycock hat Pilot Me WY.12. abbey billicock hat boats ships bowler hat breakwater brown sail catch children choppy sea churches cliff dinghy figures fish fishermen fishing boat flag furled sails harbour hill jetty ladder mast men quay red ensign sailing boats sailing yacht sea seabirds seagulls trawlers waving women woman femaleThis work has been previously attributed to a painting in Richard's 1935 Redfern Gallery exhibition - "Fishing Boats, Whitby" [Cat 20]. However, we have found details in Richard's sales diary which help us get a clearer picture.
It turns out that "Fishing Boats, Whitby" [Cat 20] was much smaller than the work on this page, so that title it is now attributed to a separate work. In addition, when we read the interesting background notes from the Tennant's auction about the painting marking the landing of the UK's largest tunny fish and added the fact that the painting's dimensions matched those …
This work has been previously attributed to a painting in Richard's 1935 Redfern Gallery exhibition - "Fishing Boats, Whitby" [Cat 20]. However, we have found details in Richard's sales diary which help us get a clearer picture.
It turns out that "Fishing Boats, Whitby" [Cat 20] was much smaller than the work on this page, so that title it is now attributed to a separate work. In addition, when we read the interesting background notes from the Tennant's auction about the painting marking the landing of the UK's largest tunny fish and added the fact that the painting's dimensions matched those of a work sold in 1934, we realised that the original title of this work is "Tunny Fishing, Whitby"!
We have no record of "Tunny Fishing, Whitby" being shown in an exhibition.
Whitby in Wartime (1940)
Image ©
Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947 (CC BY-NC-ND)
Man in a Bowler Hat (1936)
Fisherman on the bow of the trawler above wearing a similar billicock / bowler hat.
Image ©
Richard Eurich Paintings
Lyme Regis (1932)
Fisherman on the bow of the trawler above wearing a similar billicock / bowler hat.
Image ©
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