“That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane) in the first season of “The Crown, ...
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In this arresting new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the artist's ability to capture the essence of those he ...
Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who rode him. Sutherland wonders ‘what seeds that twopence ... islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
Winston Churchill’s penchant for chain smoking cigars no doubt contributed to the build-up of grime on a Claude Monet riverscape in his sitting room. The painting, depicting London’s Charing ...
Winston Churchill’s relationship with India is certainly the most controversial aspect of his life. Political activists frequently spew conspiratorial accusations of genocide and imperial hatred ...
In 1949, an American literary agent named Emery Reves gifted the painting to former prime minister Winston Churchill. Until his death in 1965, Churchill cherished the piece and kept it in the drawing ...
Among the sources of airborne grime to have accumulated on the painting’s surface? As well as soot from the fireplace, potentially smoke from Churchill’s ten Cuban cigars a day, National Trust ...
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"And we do not have our Churchill at the moment," Hannah, who also served during the Bush administration, added. "The commission on the National Defense Strategy has fulfilled its mission.
By 1997, the British-born aristocrat and daughter-in-law to Winston Churchill, had risen to serve ... who helped her establish an art collection and maintain her opulent Paris apartment with ...