2627039 Study for Ceiling painting in the Great Hall of the Institute of Civil Engineers, c.1919 (oil on canvas) by Sims, Charles (1873-1928); 45.5x109.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: In 1920 Sims was commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the Institute of Civil Engineers in Great George Street, Westminster. A figure of Victory swoops down, surrounded by a billowing Union Jack and holding the victor??? laurels, although it also serves as a wreath for the dead. At the edges people crane their necks to peer upwards, as people looking up at the ceiling would do, and a biplane, emblem of modernity crosses the composition.); 穢 Liss Fine Art; English, out of copyright.