Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in
Sussex
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, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the
South Downs
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,
Castle Hedingham
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and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a
war artist
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, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
Early life and education

Eric William Ravilious was born on 22 July 1903 in
Churchfield Road
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,
Acton, London, the son of Emma (''née'' Ford) and Frank Ravilious.
When he was young the family moved to
Eastbourne
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in Sussex, where his parents ran an antiques shop.
[Constable, 1982, p. 14.]
Ravilious was educated at Eastbourne Municipal Secondary School for Boys, from September 1914 to December 1919. It was later renamed as Eastbourne Grammar School. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Eastbourne School of Art and in 1922 another to study at the Design School at the
Royal College of Art
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. There, he became a close friend of
Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden, (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had be ...
[ (his 1930 painting of Bawden at work is in the collection of the college)] and, from 1924, studied under Paul Nash. Nash, an enthusiast for wood-engraving, encouraged him in the technique, and was impressed enough by his work to propose him for membership of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1925, and helped him to get commissions.[Constable, 1982, p. 17.]
In 1925 Ravilious received a travelling scholarship to Italy and visited Florence
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, Siena
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, and the hill towns of Tuscany
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.[Constable, 1982, p. 16.]
Career and marriage
Following this he began teaching part-time at the Eastbourne School of Art, and from 1930 taught (also part-time) at the Royal College of Art.[Constable, 1982, p. 11.] In the same year he married Eileen Lucy "Tirzah" Garwood, also an artist and engraver, whom he met whilst her tutor at Eastbourne College of Art. They had three children: John Ravilious (1935–2014); the photographer James Ravilious (1939–1999); and Anne Ullmann, née Ravilious (b. 1941), editor of books on her parents and their work.
In 1928 Ravilious, Bawden and Charles Mahoney painted a series of murals at Morley College in south London on which they worked for a whole year.[ Their work was described by J. M. Richards as "sharp in detail, clean in colour, with an odd humour in their marionette-like figures" and "a striking departure from the conventions of mural painting at that time", but was destroyed by bombing in 1941.]
Between 1930 and 1932 Ravilious and Garwood lived in Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
It ...
, west London, where there is a blue plaque
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on the wall of their house at the corner of Upper Mall and Weltje Road. The building looks out onto The Boat Race course, and the couple held bathing and boat-race parties. When Ravilious and Bawden graduated from the RCA they began exploring the Essex countryside in search of rural subjects to paint. Bawden rented Brick House in Great Bardfield as a base and when he married Charlotte Epton, a fellow RCA art student, his father bought it for him as a wedding present. Ravilious and Garwood lodged in Brick House with the Bawdens until 1934 when they purchased Bank House at Castle Hedingham
Castle Hedingham is a village in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the River Colne, Essex, Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge.
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, which is now also marked by a blue plaque. There were eventually several other Great Bardfield Artists.
In 1933 Ravilious and Garwood painted murals at the Midland Hotel in Morecambe.[Constable, 1982, p. 22.] In November 1933, Ravilious held his first solo exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery in London, titled "''An Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings''". Twenty of the 37 works displayed were sold. During 1939, Ravilious painted a series of watercolours of chalk hill figures in the English landscape. The Leicester Galleries sold three of these paintings to British public collections, the Tate
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, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Aberdeen Art Gallery
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.
Printmaking and illustration
Ravilious engraved more than 400 illustrations and drew over 40 lithographic designs for books and publications during his lifetime. His first commission, in 1926, was to illustrate a novel for Jonathan Cape. He went on to produce work both for large companies such as the Lanston Monotype Corporation and smaller, less commercial publishers, such as the Golden Cockerel Press[ (for whom he illustrated an edition of '' Twelfth Night''),][ the ]Curwen Press
The Curwen Press was founded by the Reverend John Curwen in 1863 to publish sheet music for the "tonic sol-fa" system. The Press was based in Plaistow, Newham, east London, England, where Curwen was a pastor from 1844.
The Curwen Press is best ...
and the Cresset Press.[ His woodcut of two Victorian gentlemen playing cricket has appeared on the front cover of every edition of '']Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "Bible of cricket" (or variations thereof) has been applied to ''Wi ...
'' since 1938. His style of wood-engraving was greatly influenced by that of Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood engraving, wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, ...
, whom both he and Bawden admired.[ Ravilious in turn influenced other wood engravers, such as ]Gwenda Morgan
Gwenda Morgan (1 February 1908 – 9 January 1991) was a British wood engraver. She lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex.
Early life
Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers, Austen & Co, ...
who also depicted scenes in the South Downs
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and was commissioned by the Golden Cockerel Press.
In the mid-1930s Ravilious took up lithography, making a print of ''Newhaven Harbour'' for the "Contemporary Lithographs" scheme, and a set of full-page lithographs, mostly of shop interiors, for a book called ''High Street'', with text by J. M. Richards.[Constable, 1982, p. 29.] Following a trip in a submarine in the war he produced a series of lithographs on ''Submarines'', a set of 12, one of which was entitled ''Submarine Dream.''
Design
In February 1936, Ravilious held his second exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery and again it was a success, with 28 out of the 36 paintings shown being sold. This exhibition also led to a commission from Wedgwood for ceramic designs. His work for them included a commemorative mug to mark the planned coronation of Edward VIII; the design was revised for the Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth
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.
Other popular Ravilious designs included the ''Alphabet'' mug of 1937, and the china sets, ''Afternoon Tea'' (1938), ''Travel'' (1938), and ''Garden Implements'' (1939), plus the ''Boat Race Day'' cup in 1938. Production of Ravilious' designs continued into the 1950s, with the coronation mug design being posthumously reworked for the coronation of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...
in 1953.
He also undertook glass designs for Stuart Crystal in 1934, graphic advertisements for London Transport and furniture work for Dunbar Hay in 1936. Ravilious and Bawden were both active in the campaign by the Artists' International Association to support the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
. Throughout 1938 and 1939, Ravilious spent time working in Wales, the south of France and at Aldeburgh to prepare works for his third one-man show, which was held at the Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery in 1939.
Watercolour
Apart from a brief experimentation with oils in 1930 – inspired by the works of Johan Zoffany
Johan / Johann Joseph Zoffany (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij; 13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German Neoclassicism, neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy, and India. His works appear in many prominent Briti ...
– Ravilious painted almost entirely in watercolour.[Constable, 1982, p. 21.] He was especially inspired by the landscape of the South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the ...
around Beddingham. He frequently returned to Furlongs, the cottage of Peggy Angus. He said that his time there "altered my whole outlook and way of painting, I think because the colour of the landscape was so lovely and the design so beautifully obvious ... that I simply had to abandon my tinted drawings". Some of his works, such as ''Tea at Furlongs'', were painted there.
Murals
Ravilious was commissioned to paint mural
A mural is any piece of Graphic arts, graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
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s on the walls of the tea room on Victoria Pier at Colwyn Bay
Colwyn Bay () is a town, Community (Wales), community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea. It lies within the historic counties of Wales, historic county boundaries of Denbighshire (h ...
in 1934. After the pier's partial collapse, these were thought unrecoverable, but, as of March 2018, one had been recovered in pieces and it was hoped that a second could also be saved, along with parts of another by Mary Adshead
Mary Adshead (15 February 1904 - 3 September 1995) was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer.
Biography
Adshead was born in Bloomsbury, London,as the only child of Stanley Davenport Adshead, architect, watercolourist, and Profe ...
, from the pier's auditorium.
Conwy Council's conservation officer, Huw Davies, said:
War artist
Prior to the outbreak of WWII
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Ravilious aligned himself with anti-fascist causes, including lending his work to the 1937 exhibition ''Artists Against Fascism''. He considered joining the military as a rifleman but was deterred by friends; he joined a Royal Observer Corps post in Hedingham at the outbreak of war. He was then accepted as a full-time salaried artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in December 1939. He was given the rank of Honorary Captain in the Royal Marines
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and assigned to the Admiralty.
In February 1940, he reported to the Royal Naval barracks at Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
. While based there he painted ships at the dockside, barrage balloons at Sheerness
Sheerness () is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby ...
and other coastal defences. ''Dangerous Work at Low Tide, 1940'' depicts bomb disposal experts approaching a German magnetic mine on Whitstable
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Sands. Two members of the team Ravilious painted were later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
On 24 May 1940 Ravilious sailed to Norway aboard HMS ''Highlander'' which was escorting HMS ''Glorious'' and the force being sent to recapture Narvik
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. ''Highlander'' returned to Scapa Flow before departing for Norway a second time on 31 May 1940. From the deck of ''Highlander'', Ravilious painted scenes of both HMS ''Ark Royal'' and HMS ''Glorious'' in action. ''HMS Glorious in the Arctic'' depicts Hawker Hurricanes and Gloster Gladiators landing on the deck of ''Glorious'' as part of the evacuation of forces from Norway on 7/8 June. The following evening ''Glorious'' was sunk, with great loss of life.
On returning from Norway, Ravilious was posted to Portsmouth
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from where he painted submarine interiors at Gosport
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and coastal defences at Newhaven. After Ravilious's third child was born in April 1941, the family moved out of Bank House to Ironbridge Farm near Shalford, Essex. The rent on this property was paid partly in cash and partly in paintings, which are among the few private works Ravilious completed during the war. In October 1941 Ravilious transferred to Scotland, having spent six months based at Dover. In Scotland, Ravilious first stayed with John Nash and his wife at their cottage on the Firth of Forth
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and painted convoy subjects from the signal station on the Isle of May
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. At the Royal Naval Air Station in Dundee, Ravilious drew, and sometimes flew in, the Supermarine Walrus seaplanes based there.
In early 1942, Ravilious was posted to York but shortly afterwards was allowed to return home to Shalford when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer
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. There he worked on his York paintings and requested a posting to a nearby RAF base while Garwood recovered from a mastectomy
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. He spent a short time at RAF Debden before moving to RAF Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the ...
. At Sawbridgeworth he began flying regularly in the de Havilland Tiger Moths based at the flying school there and would sketch other planes in flight from the rear cockpit of the plane.
Death
On 28 August 1942 Ravilious flew to Reykjavík
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in Iceland and then travelled on to RAF Kaldadarnes. The day he arrived there, 1 September, a Lockheed Hudson aircraft had failed to return from a patrol. The next morning three aircraft were despatched at dawn to search for the missing plane and Ravilious opted to join one of the crews. The aircraft he was on also failed to return and after four days of further searching, the RAF declared Ravilious and the four-man crew lost in action. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. The log book belonging to the pilot of the fatal flight, in the possession of the pilot's daughter, with a hand-written note "failed to return", and an RAF official stamp "death presumed", was shown on the BBC Television
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programme '' Antiques Roadshow'' in March 2020.
In 1946, Ravilious's widow, Tirzah, married Anglo-Irish radio producer Henry Swanzy, having been introduced by Peggy Angus.
Collections and exhibitions
Ravilious only held three solo exhibitions during his life from which the majority of works were bought by private collectors. Other than the large number of war-time pictures held by the Imperial War Museum, significant numbers of works by Ravilious only began to be acquired by public museums and galleries in the 1970s when the collection held by Edward Bawden started to come on the art market. The largest collection is held at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, while the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden also has a major collection.
Works by Ravilious are also held by the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art, The Priseman Seabrook Collection
The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Work ...
, the Wiltshire Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2019 the British Museum displayed one Ravilious painting, an uncharacteristic painting of a house, unlike his usual style.
A touring exhibition organised by the Victor Batte-Lay Trust named "Eric Ravilious 1903 – 1942" was held at The Minories, Colchester
The Minories is a Grade II listed building and gardens situated at the east end of High Street in Colchester, Essex, England, near Hollytrees Museum, Hollytrees, Gate House and Colchester Castle. It currently houses The Minories Galleries.
Ea ...
in 1972. The Minories held an exhibition on graphic art and book illustration in 2009, named "Graphic art and the art of illustration" which featured Ravilious.
In April to August 2015 the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, south London. It opened to the public in 1817 and was designed by the Regency architect Sir John Soane. His design was recognized for its innovative and influential method of illumination f ...
in London held what it called "the first major exhibition to survey" his watercolours, with more than 80 on display.
In 2017, The Towner Gallery marked the 75th anniversary of Ravilious' death with ''Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship'', an exhibition that explored the relationships and working collaborations between Ravilious and a group of his friends and affiliates, including Paul Nash, John Nash, Enid Marx, Barnett Freedman, Tirzah Garwood, Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden, (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had be ...
, Thomas Hennell, Douglas Percy Bliss, Peggy Angus, Diana Low and Helen Binyon.
In 2021, ''Mackerel Sky'', a painting by Ravilious that had been 'missing' for 82 years, was found and the new owner has lent it to the Hastings Contemporary art gallery for its Seaside Modern Exhibition.
From September 2021 to January 2022, the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes
Devizes () is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-cent ...
held an exhibition titled ''Eric Ravilious: Downland Man'' which featured loans from a number of National Museums including the V&A, the British Museum
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and the Imperial War Museum as well as paintings held in private collections.
To mark its reopening as The Arc in February 2022 the former Winchester
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Discovery Centre staged ''Extraordinary Everyday: The Art & Design of Eric Ravilious''. The exhibition was curated for the Hampshire Cultural Trust and featured wood engravings, watercolours, books, ceramics and lithographs.
In 2022 he was the subject of the film '' Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War'' written and directed by Margy Kinmonth.
As part of celebrations in 2025 commemorating 200 years of the modern railway, the painting ''Train Landscape'' in the collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery
Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, with a sculpture court added in 1905. In 1900, it received the art ...
was the winner of a global public vote organised by Art UK and Railway 200 to determine the world's best-loved UK railway artwork.
References
Sources
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Further reading
* James Russell, ''Ravilious: Wood Engravings'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2019);
* Andy Friend, ''Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship'' (2017).
* Jeremy Greenwood, ''Ravilious Engravings'' (2008. Wood Lea Press) atalogue raisonnee* Alan Powers, James Russell, ''Eric Ravilious: the Story of High Street'' (2008)
* Alan Powers, Oliver Green. ''Away We Go! Advertising London's Transport: Eric Ravilious & Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden, (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had be ...
'' (2006)
* Alan Powers, ''Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities'' (2004)
* Richard Morphet. ''Eric Ravilious in Context'' (2002)
* ''Submarine dream: Lithographs and letters'' (1996)
* Robert Harling. ''Ravilious and Wedgwood: The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious'' (1995),
* Helen Binyon.
Eric Ravilious. Memoir of an Artist
'; The Lutterworth Press 2007, Cambridge;
* R. Dalrymple. ''Ravilious and Wedgwood'' (1986. London)
* Ella Ravilious, ''Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature (Victoria and Albert Museum)'', 2023, Thames and Hudson Ltd
* ''Eric Ravilious, 1903–42: A Re-assessment of his Life and Work'' (exh. cat. by P. Andrew, Eastbourne Towner A.G. & Local History Museum) (1986)
* Helen Binyon, ''Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist'' (Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, New York, 1983)
* Freda Constable and Sue Simon, ''The England of Eric Ravilious'' (1982)
* J. M. Richards, ''The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious'' (1972)
* Anne Ullmann (ed.) ''Ravilious at War: the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939 – September 1942'', contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence, foreword by Brian Sewell. Huddersfield, Fleece (2002)
* James Russell, ''Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2009);
* James Russell, ''Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2010);
* James Russell, ''Ravilious in Pictures: A Country Life'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2010);
* James Russell, ''Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2012);
* James Russell, ''Ravilious: Submarine'' (edited by Tim Mainstone), Mainstone Press, Norwich (2013);
* James Russell, ''Eric Ravilious Downland Man'', with a preface by David Dawson, Wiltshire Museum (2021),
* Richard Knott, ''The Sketchbook War.'' The History Press, 2013.
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