This Spitfire P7539 was my first recovery, crashed 27th October 1940. As a child, the story of this Spitfire and the loss of it's pilot were told to me by my dad, which stayed with me for all of my life, so you can see what prompted me to paint this picture. The painting shows the last moments of Johnny's last patrol, with Spitfire P7539 spiriling down out of control towards Hildenborough and his commanding officer P.O. H. R. Allen followed him down, shouting down the RT "pull out Johnnie, for Christ’s sake pull out". Sadly Johnny never pulled out and he crashed in the rear garden of the Half Moon public house in Hildenborough, Kent.

Spitfire P7539

Pilot Officer John Romney Mather

66 Squadron, Gravesend

Material information

Paper weight: 350 gsm

Paper finish: silk

Colour: white

Sizes available

A4: 210mm x 297mm

A3: 297mm x 420mm

A2: 420mm x 597mm

All sizes are approx and may vary slightly.

Product information

High quality digital reproduction of original oil painting

Each print signed individually by artist