Billy Bishop Air Ace and his Nieuport Type 17 (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Michael Roffe
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 28" x 13" (700mm x 320mm)
Date: 1990
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: Roffe2

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Michael Roffe.

This watercolour shows Billy Bishop piloting his Nieuport Type 17 in the skies above the Western Front along with a German Albatross biplane.

Billy Bishop was a Canadian flyer in the Royal Flying Corps and was officially the third ranking Allied Air Ace behind Frenchman Rene Fonck and Irishman Mick Mannock. A lovely precise painting.

This is the original painting used on the cover of the book Famous Flyers: Billy Bishop, 1990.

• Artist Biography

  Michael Roffe (Fl. 1970s)
  Michael Roffe is a talented painter of military subjects who has illustrated many titles for Osprey over the years, including the Men-at-Arms and Vanguard series. His artistic talents span a variety of historical periods; he has illustrated titles relating to the Boer War, the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars and the American War for Independence.
  Source: Osprey Publishing