HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour (1942)
Photo: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London      
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947 (CC BY-NC-ND)

HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour

1942

Oil on canvas
76.2 x 127 cm

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London


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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. EURICH. 1942.

Aka: HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour [NMM]; Portsmouth after the Air Raids, with HMS Revenge Sailing Out [Bradford]; Portsmouth after the Air Raids with the Revenge Sailing Out; HMS Revenge leaving Portsmouth after the Blitz [RE sales diary]

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HMS Revenge's movements around the time of the raid are documented at Naval_History.net linked in the References section at the bottom of the page.

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7th January 1944: Had a nice letter from Victor Pasmore congratulating me on my ‘Portsmouth (with Revenge leaving)’. I am rather surprised at this.

Provenance

COMMISSIONED | 1943

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

EXHIBITED | 1943

"National War Pictures" - National Gallery, London

GIFTED | [unknown date]

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC1571

EXHIBITED | 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition" - Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford    (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)

Cat 31; Bradford and Southampton venues only

EXHIBITED | 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

"Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day" - Imperial War Museum, London, UK

Cat 13

EXHIBITED | 20th Mar to 29th May 2004

"Sea Change - Paintings by Richard Eurich in War and Peace" - St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington

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Provenance:

  • COMMISSIONED - 1943 - by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee
  • GIFTED - [unknown date] - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
    by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC1571

Exhibitions:

  • 1943 - "National War Pictures", National Gallery, London
  • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980 - "Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition", Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford    (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)
    Cat 31; Bradford and Southampton venues only
  • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992 - "Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day", Imperial War Museum, London, UK
    Cat 13
  • 20th Mar to 29th May 2004 - "Sea Change - Paintings by Richard Eurich in War and Peace", St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington

Notes:

  • None recorded.

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