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However, when the British artist Graham Sutherland (1903-80) was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Churchill in 1954 for 1,000 guineas (about £27,000 today), paid by the House of.

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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 eventually destroyed shortly after. Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland) - WikiMili, The Best W

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Sat 3 Nov 2001 15.07 EST · View the work online Artist: Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), one of the neo-romantic painters who dominated British art during the second world war and its aftermath.

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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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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. Sutherland was intent on painting the leader seated and he used a rather square-shaped canvas because it helped support that composition.

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The portrait that would define Sutherland's artistic career belonged to neither of these men, however; it belonged to Winston Churchill. After his well-received portrait of Maugham, he was chosen to depict Churchill, a portrait that was intended to hang in Parliament after the prime minister's death, a portrait that would preserve a legacy.

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In June 2016 (see previous article), Alistair Lexden published an article about Graham Sutherland's acclaimed, but deeply controversial portrait of Winston Churchill.Presented to him on his eightieth birthday, 30 November 1954, the picture was later destroyed on his wife's instructions. (A copy was later made and given to the Carlton Club, but it is not on display.)

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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.

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Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 - 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking, tapestry and glass design.

Sir Winston Churchill, by Graham Sutherland (1955, Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton)

Last 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.

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A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, painted by Graham Sutherland in preparation for a later work destroyed by the wartime prime minister's wife, is to go on public display for the first time.

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Military Career Churchill enjoyed a brief but eventful career in the British Army at a zenith of British military power. He joined the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars in 1895 and served in the Indian.

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Sutherland contributed to the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and was an Official War Artist. He designed the Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph for Coventry Cathedral. Sutherland's portrait of Churchill, to mark his 80th birthday caused a sensation at its unveiling in 1954, and was subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife.

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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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Graham Sutherland OM (1903-1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine. Having begun an apprenticeship as a railway engineer, Sutherland studied at Goldsmith's School of Art for five years during the 1920s, concentrating on engraving and etching. He first exhibited drawings.