He began painting marine subjects, especially square riggers, and received instruction from Brian May, the well known marine painter. May introduced Richard Firth to the works of the famed marine artists, Stephen Dews and Stephen Renard. Firth was very impressed with their works and determined that he could equal their quality.
Firth was asked to exhibit at the prestigious Ferens Museum and Art Gallery, Hull, England in their Winter Exhibition of 1996. Since then, his marine paintings have become highly sought after by collectors of fine marine art.
Due to the limited amount of paintings Richard Firth creates each year, only a handful of are currently available for sale, worldwide.
| Richard M. Firth - 65 PAINTINGS
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II, America’s Cup 1893
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Vigilant And Valkyrie II, The America Cup 1893, 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie (II) racing off Newport, Rhode Island for the 1893 America's Cup
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II, America's Cup 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie (II) racing off Newport, Rhode Island, for the 1893 America
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II, America's Cup 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie, America's Cup 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II racing off Newport in the America
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II racing off Newport for the 1893 America's Cup
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VIGILANT AND VALKYRIE II, AMERICAS CUP, 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II, racing off Newport in the America's Cup, 1893
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II racing off Rhode Island, 1893
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Vigilant vs. Valkyrie II
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Vigilant and Valkyrie II on the windward leg, America's Cup, 1893
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Vigilant & Brittania 1894 Racing off the Royal Yacht Squadron on the Solent
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Vigilant & Brittania Racing on the Clyde
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Vigilant & Brittania 1894 on the Solent
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Brittania Vigilant & satania Racing off Cowes
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Vigilant and Britannia in a close duel in the Solent, 1894
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Vigilant and Britannia racing off Hunter's Quay
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Britannia and Vigilant
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Vigilant In British Waters Off Cowes With Britannia And Satanita 1894
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AMERICAN YACHT VIGILANT RACING AGAINST THE KING’S YACHT BRITANNIA ON THE SOLENT OFF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
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Vigilant and Britannia racing off Hunter's Quay in July 1894
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Vigilant and Britannia racing off Hunter's Quay on the Clyde
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Britannia and Vigilant neck and neck off Norris Castle, Cowes, 1894
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Vigilant and Britannia neck-and-neck in the Solent, 1894
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Shamrock V and Candida racing off the Royal Yacht Squadron's home at Cowes
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The America's Cup 1930 Lipton's Last Challenge
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Shamrock (V), Candida and Westward racing off Cowes, 1930
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Shamrock V and Enterprise in the America's Cup
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Shamrock V and Enterprise, America's Cup 1930
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The Big Class 1932 Regatta
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A trial match between Endeavour and Velsheda racing off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes
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Endeavour and Velsheda racing off Cowes
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Americas Cup 1934 Endeavour & Rainbow Racing off Rode Island
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Americas Cup 1934
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The America's Cup 1934 : Rainbow and Endeavour Racing of Rhode Island
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Endeavour and Rainbow in the America's Cup
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Endeavour & Rainbow, America’s Cup 1934
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The America's Cup 1934
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THE AMERICA'S CUP 1934, ENDEAVOUR AND RAINBOW RACING OFF RHODE ISLAND
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America’s Cup 1934, Endeavour and Rainbow
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America’s Cup 1934, Endeavour & Rainbow
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ENDEAVOUR AND RAINBOW, AMERICA’S CUP, 1934
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Endeavor and Shamrock V
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Britannia and Yankee racing at full pelt off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, 1935
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Yankee, Endeavour 1 & Candida Racing on the Solent off the Royal Yacht Squadron
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Endeavour 1, Candida, Velsheda & Yankee Racing off the Royal Yacht Squadron, 1935
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Yankee & Endeavour Racing off the Royal Yacht Squadron 1935
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Yankee, Britannia and Endeavour racing in the Solent off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes in the summer of 1935
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Yankee and Britannia Racing in the Solent
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Yankee & Britannia racing off Norris Castle
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Britannia, Westward, Yankee, 1935
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Endeavour (II) and Velsheda powering to windward in Osborne Bay
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Endeavour (II) and Velsheda powering to windward off Cowes
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America's Cup 1937, Ranger and Endeavor
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NYYC Cruise Race
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New York yacht race off Rhodes Island
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A View to a Thrill – America’s Cup 1937 Ranger and Endeavour II
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NEW YORK YACHT CLUB CRUISE, 1937, RANGER, ENDEAVOUR II, ENDEAVOUR, YANKEE AND RAINBOW
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Endeavour II and Ranger, The Americas Cup 1937
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The New York Yacht Club's Cruise, 1937: Ranger and Endeavour (I), ahead of Endeavour (II), Rainbow and Yankee
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Ranger, Endeavour, Endeavour 2, Yankee & Rainbow, Racing off Buzzards Bay, The New York Yacht Club
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New York Yacht Club Cruise, 1937
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Former butcher Richard Firth has become one of the world’s leading marine artists, after teaching himself with a beginners’ painting-by-numbers kit.
Richard Firth was born in Yorkshire, England in 1971. He is mainly self-taught and began his artistic career by painting vintage cars, with two of his motoring paintings published as limited edition prints.
