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War in the Air - Christopher Wynn Nevinson (1918) ( upload.wikimedia.org )

War artist C.R.W. Nevinson depicts an air battle involving Canadian air ace, William ‘Billy' Bishop. Bishop's plane, with blue, white and red roundel and tail markings, fights at least three German aircraft. Bishop, the second-highest ranking Allied ace of the war, was credited with the destruction of 72 enemy aircraft.

Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams - Gerald Festus Kelly (1959) ( 1.bp.blogspot.com )

One of several portraits of the composer painted by Kelly at the end of his life. Vaughan Williams was influenced by by British Folk music in many of his pieces, including The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis - featured in the film Master and Commander, and Dives and Lazarus.

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