'The Angel of Death', 1939-1945

Tempera on canvas by Major Conrad 'Dick' Romyn Richardson MC, 9th Jat Regiment, later known as Dick Romyn, 1946 (c).

A symbolic, semi-abstract expression of the evils of war, painted after the artist had been fighting in the Burmese jungle, as part of 'D' Force. This was the first painting executed by the artist after his experiences in the Second World War (1939-1945).

Romyn painted this work using egg-based tempera according to a seventeenth-century Dutch recipe, on Belgian canvas.