SOLDSigned and inscribed on reverse ‘Sunderland Seaplane, 1940’ (2333)
Thinned oil on tracing paper, 14 x 20 in. (35.5 x 51 cm.)
Tags: Charles Cundall oil Highlights of 20/21 Art Fair transport war
Provenance:Artist’s wife, Jacqueline Pietersen (studio ref. no. 2333);
Phoenix Gallery, Highgate.
The
Short S.25 Sunderland, ‘one of the finest flying-boats in the world’,
was a British flying-boat patrol-bomber developed for the Royal Air
Force by Short Brothers, first flown on 16 October 1937. Based in part
on the S.23 Empire flying boat, the flagship of Imperial Airways, the
S.25 was extensively re-engineered for military service. It was one of
the most powerful and widely used flying boats throughout the
SecondWorldWar , and was involved in countering the threat posed by
German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic.
It took its name from the town of Sunderland in north-east England.
