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  1. 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.

  2. Sep 28, 2022 · The painting was a gift to Churchill from both Houses of Parliament, but the statesman was infamously unhappy with the portrait, and we now know that within a year of receiving it at Chartwell, his wife had it destroyed.

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  3. Apr 17, 2024 · A member of staff from Sotheby’s poses for the media with a portrait of the iconic former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, painted by Graham Sutherland in 1954, at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

  4. Jul 10, 2015 · 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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  5. Apr 19, 2024 · While the painting itself was destroyed, a painted study of Churchill — created by Sutherland in preparation for the infamous birthday portrait — is now on display at the UK’s Blenheim ...

  6. Apr 27, 2018 · The Crown. Winston Churchill. A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, which the war leader loathed when it was unveiled on his 80th birthday, could be reinstated in Parliament. The 1954 portrait...

  7. In February 1955 a senior Foreign Office official, Evelyn Shuckburgh, noted in his diary that he had encoun­tered Churchill ‘slumped in his chair, looking just like the Sutherland portrait’. Churchill’s doctor, Lord Moran, put his finger on the central difficulty in the account of Churchill’s reaction to the portrait which he included in his diary.