The SE5 Proves its Worth

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Albert Ball SE5 Original Painting by Graham Turner GAvA

The SE5 Proves its Worth Ref: GT-33B

Captain Albert Ball engages an Albatros CIII north of Cambrai on 23rd April 1917.

After 56 Squadron had been equipped with the new SE5 single seaters, Ball still preferred to use his Nieuport on lone patrols, but when this was damaged in an early morning encounter on 23rd April, he took up SE5 A4850 and soon ran into a flight of Albatros scouts, downing one. As he returned to his airfield he encountered a lone Albatros CIII observation plane from Fliegerabteilung 7, fired 40 rounds into it, wounding the observer, and forcing the crippled German plane to the ground.

Gouache painting by Graham Turner GAvA - image size 19"x 13" (48 x 33cm)

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Winner of the Hawker Siddeley Trophy for the best work in gouache at the Guild of Aviation Artists 2023 Aviation Painting of the Year Exhibition.

Price: £975.00

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(Right) Graham Turner creating his oil painting ' 'Contact'.

'Oops!' - Sopwith Camel accident, painting by Graham Turner

Detail from Albert Ball SE5 Original Painting by Graham Turner GAvA

Award Winning First World War Aviation Art

Graham Turner's original oil painting Into the Hands of Fate (right) achieved award success at the 2013 Guild of Aviation Artists annual exhibition, held in the prestigious Mall Galleries, London, where it was awarded the Cross and Cockade prize for the best First World War aviation painting, the Roy Nockolds Trophy (voted for by the public), and was runner up for the two top awards - the Aviation Painting of the Year and Flypast Fellows Award for Excellence. It also sold straight away (for £7,500).

He also won the Roy Nockolds Trophy in 2011, the first time he exhibited with the Guild, for his painting 'Steady Boy', and was Highly Commended for 'Thank You Harry Tate' in 2012, both 'Victor & Vanquished' and 'Contact' in 2015, 'Replacements' in 2016, and 'Letter from Home' in 2017.

First World War Aviation prints

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