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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 3, 2020 · Sutherland had already painted Churchills long-time friend and sometime goad, Lord Beaverbrook. Cynics might think the recommendation, by one of Churchills greatest political enemies, something of a preemptive strike on WSC’s legacy. Of course they would be cynics.

  3. 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...

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  4. Apr 19, 2024 · Updated 4:47 AM EDT, Fri April 19, 2024. Link Copied! Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill, painted to commemorate the-then Prime Minister's 80th birthday in 1954, was immortalized...

  5. Sep 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.

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    • Did Graham Sutherland paint Winston Churchill?2
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    • Did Graham Sutherland paint Winston Churchill?4
    • Did Graham Sutherland paint Winston Churchill?5
  6. Nov 3, 2001 · Sutherland was commissioned by both Houses of Parliament to paint a full-length portrait of Churchill in 1954, for which this is a study. The finished painting was presented to Churchill....

  7. Churchill under­standably was interested only in being depicted as the national hero that he will always remain; Sutherland, as he said so often, painted him as the man he encountered in the weeks before his eightieth birthday. He explained that he could only ‘paint what he saw’.