ROBERT'S AVIATION ART

BE2c British Nightfighter, 1916

Aviation Art: BE2c
$2,150.-
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Acrylic on Hardboard
Airbrush & Hand Brush
SIZE: 16"x20"

A development of the earlier BE2, the BE2c was used for
everything from observation, light bombing, training to
primitive night fighter. Too slow and stable to be much
good as a day fighter, it excelled in the dark as a single
seater Zeppelin hunter, being responsible for bringing down
more than one of the giant German airships. The painting
shows Lt. Frederick Sowrey of the Royal Flying Corps stalking
a Zeppelin in September, 1916, near London. I had read first-
hand accounts of the bright cherry-red glow of the engines as
seen in the dark and the painting grew from that idea.


This original painting was exhibited at the Colony
Theatre, Burbank, California, June-July, 2006.

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