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Sydney Carline was a London-born painter who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art before becoming a fighter pilot in World War One.

He was shot down and wounded in France in 1916, but recovered and served again in Italy.

While he was flying near Verona he was able to make sketches from his cockpit.

In the summer of 1918, he was commissioned to be a war artist by the Imperial War Museum. His task was to depict aerial combat as seen from the air.

Sydney returned to Britain in 1920. He died, aged 40, in 1929.

Location: Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Image: Sidney Carline, courtest of IWM