Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson Accession Number: ART27645

Description

Portrait of Wing Commander Peter Stuart Isaacson DFC, AFC, DFM (401068). Isaacson flew with 156 Squadron of the RAF. He is seen wearing his battle-dress blouse, and his Pathfinder badge below his medal ribbon bar. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.

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Accession Number
ART27645
Classification
Art
Object Type
Painting
Physical Description
Medium: oil on canvas on wood panel
Measurement
Framed: 68.5 cm x 61 cm x 9.5 cm
Unframed: 50.4 cm x 43.2 cm
Medium
oil on canvas on wood panel
Date Made
c 1946
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
presented by the RAAF 1970
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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