Richard Eurich
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Richard Ernst Eurich, OBE, RA was an English painter who worked as a war artist to the Admiralty in the Second World War and was also known for his panoramic seascapes and narrative paintings. These w
Dunkirk Beaches, 1940 (Art.IWMART LD 2277)
The Raid on the Bruneval Radio-location Station, 1942
Preparations for D-day
The War Artists Advisory Committee, was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its
Richard Eurich
…he settled in Hythe, Hampshire. Hythe, and the nearby Southampton Water, became regular subjects of his paintings. In June 1940 Eurich wrote to the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, suggesting the withdrawal from Dunkirk as a subject, as he had previously painted in the port at Dunkirk. Although WAAC had already commissioned…
Factory workers going to work at the Mather & Platt, Manchester, in the snow, by L. S. Lowry, 1943
The Passage to the Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol, (Art. IWM ART LD 170), by John Piper
Coggeshall Church, Essex, (Tate, 1940) by John Armstrong
A Brother and Sister Sheltering in the Underground, 1941, (Art.IWM ART LD 795), by Edmond Xavier Kapp