02 Marine Paintings - Tristram Hillier's Portuguese Trawlers, with Footnotes, #362

Tristram Hillier, R.A. (1905-1983)

Portuguese Trawlers, c. 1966

Tempera on canvas

24 x 32 in. (61 x 81.3 cm.)

Private collection

The Portuguese-class trawlers of World War II were naval trawlers, built in Portugal for the Royal Navy.

These vessels were built in several Portuguese yards, and offered by Portugal to the Royal Navy. This aid to the British war effort solicited protests by Nazi Germany, since, officially, Portugal was a neutral country.

After the war the ships were sold, most of them becoming mercantile vessels, some under the Portuguese flag. More on Portuguese Trawlers

Tristram Hillier, R.A. (1905-1983)

Portuguese Trawlers, c. 1966

Tempera on canvas

24 x 32 in. (61 x 81.3 cm.)

Private collection

Tristram Paul Hillier RA (11 April 1905 – 18 January 1983) was an English surrealist painter. 

Hillier was born in Peking, China. A Roman Catholic, he was educated at Downside School. In 1922 he returned to China to study the language, and then until 1924 attended Christ's College, Cambridge. He went to the Slade in 1926, then to Paris where he studied for two years under André Lhote, and also at the Atelier Colarossi.

In Paris he met many members of the Surrealist movement; he was particularly influenced by Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst. He lived in France until 1940, but travelled extensively; he remained a surrealist painter throughout his life.

His first one-man show was at the Lefevre Gallery in 1931; he later exhibited mainly at Tooth's Gallery. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve with the Free French. After the war he lived in France and in Spain, and then went to live in England. 

Tristram Hillier died in Bristol, England, on 18 January 1983. More on Tristram Paul Hillier

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