Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland) - Wikipedia
WEBPortrait of Winston Churchill (1954) by Graham Sutherland. The Portrait of Winston Churchill was a painting by English artist Graham Sutherland that depicted the British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, created in 1954. It was disliked by Churchill and within a year it had been destroyed.
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill …
WEBSep 3, 2020 · Sutherland’s Churchill portrait suggests a comparison to the movie Iron Lady. Both focused on a powerful Prime Minister, emphasizing their near-end-of-life Failing capacities, instead of recounting the qualities both Lady Thatcher and WSC demonstrated in …
Reckoning with the Graham Sutherland Portrait
WEBSep 28, 2022 · English modernist painter Graham Sutherland with his unfinished portrait of Winston Churchill, 1954. What Sutherland produced in that same studio, however, was to be very a different painting. The sittings were, according to later accounts, rife with tension.
Why We Love The Legendary Portrait Sir Winston Churchill Hated
WEBMay 31, 2024 · The 'Study of Sir Winston Churchill' by Graham Sutherland is a historic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. It was an informal work, produced during preparatory sketches for the war time leader's official 80th birthday portrait - famously loathed by its subject and covertly destroyed by his secretary in 1956. This surviving painting is rich in ...
Homage to a Hero and a Masterpiece: The ... - The London Magazine
WEBLast 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.
The Sutherland Portrait - International Churchill Society
WEBNov 29, 2017 · 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.
The 1954 Sutherland Portrait - International Churchill Society
WEBApr 30, 2013 · Q Recently on BBC Radio 4, antiquarian book dealer Rick Gekoski spoke of the Sutherland portrait of Churchill, commissioned by Parliament as a tribute on his 80th birthday in 1954, saying it was destroyed by his wife because she hated it so much.
NPG 5332; Winston Churchill - National Portrait Gallery
WEBOne of a number of studies for a portrait commissioned by past and present members of the House of Commons and House of Lords to mark Churchill's eightieth birthday. It was Sutherland's custom to prepare detailed, almost independent 'finished' works, close-up studies of the heads of his sitters.
A Study for the Portrait Winston Churchill Famously Abhorred Is …
WEBApr 19, 2024 · As Winston Churchill approached his 80th birthday, the Houses of Parliament commissioned Graham Sutherland, a highly esteemed British Modernist, to paint his portrait as a gift. The former...
NPG 6096; Winston Churchill - National Portrait Gallery
WEBAfter the presentation by the Houses of Parliament, Lady Churchill put it in the attic, and later had it cut up and incinerated. The National Portrait Gallery has two of Sutherland's preparatory oil sketches for the head and a compositional drawing.