Sutherland's painting of Winston Churchill


Sir Winston Churchill, by Graham Sutherland (1955, Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton)

At the birthday celebrations at Westminster Hall in November 1954, Churchill was presented with a portrait by Graham Sutherland, commissioned by past and present members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.


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By DAVE TURRELL | September 3, 2020 The short-lived Sutherland portrait, 1954. (Wikimedia). 30 November 1954 The scene is familiar to students of Churchill's life. It is his eightieth birthday. In London, both Houses of Parliament have assembled in Westminster Hall to celebrate the occasion.


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London | September 2024 This is an old story, remarked as early as Finest Hour's fourth issue back in 1969. The occasion was a signal one, and Churchill's words were apposite. "The portrait," he told the assembled Members of the Houses of Commons and Lords, "is a remarkable example of modern art. It certainly combines force with candour."


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Military Career Churchill enjoyed a brief but eventful career in the British Army at a zenith of British military power. He joined the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars in 1895 and served in the Indian.


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The portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland As 80th birthday presents go, it was one of the more awkward in political history: a portrait described as making its subject look.


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Graham Sutherland OM (1903-1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine. Having begun an apprenticeship as a railway engineer, Sutherland studied at Goldsmith's School of Art for five years during the 1920s, concentrating on engraving and etching. He first exhibited drawings.


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However, when the British artist Graham Sutherland (1903-80) was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Churchill in 1954 for 1,000 guineas (about £27,000 today), paid by the House of.


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The portrait that would define Sutherland's artistic career belonged to neither of these men, however; it belonged to Winston Churchill. After his well-received portrait of Maugham, he was chosen to depict Churchill, a portrait that was intended to hang in Parliament after the prime minister's death, a portrait that would preserve a legacy.


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A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, painted by Graham Sutherland in preparation for a later work destroyed by the wartime prime minister's wife, is to go on public display for the first time.


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In June 2016 (see previous article), Alistair Lexden published an article about Graham Sutherland's acclaimed, but deeply controversial portrait of Winston Churchill.Presented to him on his eightieth birthday, 30 November 1954, the picture was later destroyed on his wife's instructions. (A copy was later made and given to the Carlton Club, but it is not on display.)


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Graham Sutherland, Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, 1954, oil on canvas, 147.3 x 121.9 cm (destroyed) Yet while the facial expression remained unresolved, the body and its position were fixed fairly early on. Sutherland was intent on painting the leader seated and he used a rather square-shaped canvas because it helped support that composition.


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Last year, one of the country's leading historians, Simon Schama, gave Sutherland's portrait the dominant place in an ac­claimed television series, accompanied by a book, The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits.


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Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 - 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking, tapestry and glass design.


Sutherland's painting of Winston Churchill

Sat 3 Nov 2001 15.07 EST · View the work online Artist: Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), one of the neo-romantic painters who dominated British art during the second world war and its aftermath.


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Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill is probably one of the most famous 'lost' works of art in British history, so it's little wonder it made an appearance in Netflix royal drama.