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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. In 1954 Sutherland was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

  2. Sep 3, 2020 · 4 Jonathan Black, Winston Churchill in Modern Art: 1900 to the Present Day (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), 166. 5 Soames, Clementine Churchill, 589. 6 Rhodes James, Complete Speeches, VIII, 8608. 7 Graham Sutherland to Lord Beaverbrook, 21 March 1961. Archives, Beaverbrook Art Gallery. 8 Black, Winston Churchill in Modern Art, 189.

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  4. Sep 28, 2022 · He painted and repainted this area of the canvas numerous times. FIG. 2 . 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.

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  5. Apr 19, 2024 · Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill, painted to commemorate the-then Prime Minister's 80th birthday in 1954, was immortalized in the Netflix show "The Crown." ... (in a work), so ...

  6. Why did Graham Sutherland paint a portrait of Winston Churchill? A portrait of Churchill was commissioned by the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons to celebrate the Prime ...

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  7. This, I think, was a direct reference to Winston Churchill. Perhaps I could detect one other feature in the face as painted by Sutherland: contempt. Winston Churchill was too great a man to feel an emotion like hate for a man like Hitler. All he felt was contempt. And this also seemed evident to the discerning eye.

  8. Mar 23, 2019 · Graham Sutherland. In 1954 the English artist Graham Sutherland was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. The 1,000 guinea fee for the painting was funded by donations from members of the House of Commons and House of Lords. The painting was presented to Churchill by both Houses of Parliament at a public ...