"Sutherland's Portrait of Winston Churchill 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 ceremony in Westminster Hall on his 80th birthday on 30 November 1954. Churchill hated the portrait. After the public presentation, the painting was taken to his country home at Chartwell but was not put on display. After the death of Lady"
"of Sir Winston Churchill, which was commissioned in 1954 by the past and present members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in celebration of Churchill's eightieth birthday. Sutherland's resulting controversial portrait became infamous because Churchill openly hated it and stated that it ""makes me look half-witted"". After it was publicly unveiled in Westminster Hall on 30 November 1954 Sutherland's portrait was hidden and then destroyed (by order of Lady Churchill). Juda's photographs record the day when an elderly Churchill can be seen being posed by Sutherland. Churchill's vigour was fading; in the"
"and having them incinerated, to avoid causing further distress to her husband. Lady Churchill had destroyed earlier portraits of her husband that she disliked, including sketches by Walter Sickert and Paul Maze. In fact, Lady Churchill had hidden the portrait in the cellars at Chartwell, and employed her private secretary Grace Hamblin and Hamblin's brother to remove it in the middle of the night and burn it in a remote location. Many commentators were aghast at the destruction of a work of art, and Sutherland condemned it as an act of vandalism; others upheld the Churchills' right to dispose of"
"a Labour MP and one of Churchill's critics, called it, ""A beautiful work"", Lord Hailsham, one of Churchill's Conservative colleagues and a friend, called it ""disgusting"". The painting was intended to hang in the Houses of Parliament after Churchill's death, but it had been given to Churchill as a personal gift, and he took it away to Chartwell, where it was never displayed. Requests to borrow the painting for exhibitions of Sutherland's work were refused. In 1978, it was reported that Lady Churchill had destroyed the painting within a year of its arrival at Chartwell, by breaking it into pieces"
"sent five paintings by her late husband to auction. Only after her death was it discovered she had destroyed the famous Graham Sutherland portrait of her husband because Winston had not liked it. Lady Spencer-Churchill died at her London home, at 7 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge, of a heart attack on 12 December 1977. She was 92 years old and had outlived her husband by almost 13 years, as well as three of her five children. She is buried with her husband and children (with the exception of Marigold who is interred in Kensal Green Cemetery in London) at St Martin's"
"son Randolph thought the portrait made him look ""disenchanted"". Churchill's wife viewed the completed portrait on 20 November 1954 and took a photograph back to her husband. It was his first view of the work, and he was deeply upset. He described it to Lord Moran as ""filthy"" and ""malignant"", and complained that it made him “look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.” With only 10 days to go, he sent a note to Sutherland stating that ""the painting, however masterly in execution, is not suitable"" and declaring that the ceremony"
"their property as they saw fit. Some preparatory sketches for Sutherland's painting are held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. It is thought that a copy of the portrait is held at the Carlton Club, also in London, although it is not on display. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery also has a number of studies Sutherland did in preparation for the portrait in its collection. Within the events of the Netflix series ""The Crown"", the ninth episode of the first season dramatizes the creation, unveiling, and destruction of the portrait starring John Lithgow as Sir Winston Churchill, Stephen Dillane as Graham"
"On 14 July 2016, Whittingdale was dismissed from his position as Culture Secretary by the new Prime Minister, Theresa May. In July 2016, shortly after his sacking, ""The Guardian"" criticised Whittingdale over his decision to turn down a request from the ""Daily Mirror"" for the release of historic documents relating to Mark Thatcher's dealings with the government of Oman in the 1980s. Roy Greenslade wrote that few, ""apart from the man himself and his friends"", could disagree with the argument that the public had a right to know. Whittingdale married Ancilla Campbell Murfitt, a nurse and school governor, in 1990;"
"preserved as it looked in the 1920-30s; at the time of the Trust's purchase, Churchill committed to leave it, ""garnished and furnished so as to be of interest to the public"". Rooms are decorated with memorabilia and gifts, the original furniture and books, as well as honours and medals that Churchill received. Lady Churchill's long-time secretary, Grace Hamblin, was appointed the first administrator of the house. Earlier in her career, Miss Hamblin had undertaken the destruction of the portrait of Churchill painted by Graham Sutherland. The picture, a gift from both Houses of Parliament on Churchill's 80th birthday in 1954,"
"supported the arsonist suffragettes. There were similar incidents around the country. One WSPU member, for example, put a small hatchet into the Prime Minister's carriage inscribed with the words: ""Votes for Women,"" and other suffragettes used acid to burn the same slogan into golf courses used by MPs. In 1914 Mary Richardson slashed the Velasquez painting ""Rokeby Venus"" to protest against Pankhurst's imprisonment. The WSPU's approval of property destruction led to the departure of several important members. The first were Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband Frederick. They had long been integral members of the group's leadership but found themselves in"
"George St. dining room was painted the great family picture now at Boston, which, when first publicly shown by Lord Lyndhurst at the Manchester exhibition, 1862, was ""pronounced by competent critics to be equal to any, in the same style, by Vandyck"". But the artist's fame as a historical painter was made by ""The Death of the Earl of Chatham"" showing the collapse in the House of Lords of the former Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The painting, however, brought him denunciation from Sir William Chambers, president of the Royal Academy, who objected to its being exhibited"
"club, and this only increased after he left the Liberal Party in 1924. Thus from 1915 to 1940, the painting was held by the club in storage. When Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940, the club rushed out the painting and put it on display in the main lobby (where it still hangs today). It was bombed after one year, suffering a diagonal gash down the middle. The painting was then painstakingly restored, and Churchill re-unveiled it himself on 22 July 1943, at a ceremony also attended by his wife (a lifelong Liberal), Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair (a"
"carriage. Arnold knew that Berkeley belonged to Harrison, whom he viewed as a traitor, and wanted to punish him for treason against Great Britain. All of the Harrison family's portraits and artwork were taken outside and 40 of Harrison's slaves were confiscated. Arnold spared Harrison's mansion and houses, however, as he believed the war would soon be won by the British, and desired a grand plantation in which to live after the war. The only original portrait of Harrison to survive was the miniature around his wife's neck, wearing it as she fled from the British forces. On January 19,"
"masterpieces to fund improving his garden for opening to the public. In 1994 he disagreed when the National Gallery of Scotland sought to rehouse some of his paintings in a new gallery in Glasgow, preferring them to be dispersed around Scotland. Sutherland married Lady Diana Percy (23 November 1917 – 16 June 1978), daughter of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, on 29 April 1939. Following the death of his first wife, on 16 August 1979 he married Evelyn Moubray, a former interior decorator who shared his love of fishing. There were no children from either marriage. John Egerton, 6th"
"on it with a paintbrush though he usually worked with an ink-marker on paper. He also contributed to ""Private Eye"" and was appointed political cartoonist to ""The Spectator"". He regularly caricatured the then prime minister Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, and Lord Beaverbrook, who issued a writ against him. Birdsall's cartoons satirised the Profumo scandal, besides the Church of England and rearguard Britain's faulty attempts to emerge into the 'swinging Sixties'. Illness prevented him from doing more than about twenty of these political cartoons, and he succumbed to leukaemia, aged 27. He was survived by his widow, the actress Jocelyn Britton."
"United Kingdom, he had to resign office. He died from Bright's disease on 2 August 1861. His statue by Foley was placed in front of the War Office in Pall Mall, London, and after that building's demolition placed next to A.G. Walker's statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, adjacent to the Crimean Monument. In the early 1840s, Herbert is thought to have had an affair with the noted society beauty and author Caroline Norton, who was unable to get a divorce from an abusive husband, so that the relationship ended in 1846. In 1846 Sidney Herbert married Elizabeth (b."
"Prime MinisterGladstone, but he also went to America three times to include the department store owner Isaac H Clothier, Swarthmore College dean Elizabeth Powell Bond and landowner and philanthropist William Poole Bancroft in his list of sitters. In 1891 he was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1891 and in 1893 he painted Elizabeth Hanbury who was then 100 years old. Bigland died aged 68 in 1926. Bigland has twenty paintings in British national collections. Percy Bigland Percy Bigland (1856-1926) was an English portrait painter. Bigland was the son of Edwin Bigland, of Birkenhead in 1856. He"
"1872. He had earlier donated some of his unsold paintings to the National Portrait Gallery, where many are still on display. Partridge portrayed many of the notable people of the day, with over three hundred portraits in total. In addition to the royal subjects previously mentioned, he painted the prime minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and many other political or noble figures including Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Maharaja Duleep Singh, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke"
"possibly his niece Augusta, who married Gerald Henry Blunt. Gordon's papers, as well as some of his grandfather's (Samuel Enderby III), were accepted by the British Library around 1937. The failure to rescue General Gordon's force in Sudan was a major blow to Prime Minister Gladstone's popularity. Queen Victoria sent him a telegram of rebuke which found its way into the press. Victoria's telegram was not coded as usual which suggests she wanted it to appear in the press. Critics said Gladstone had neglected military affairs and had not acted promptly enough to save the besieged Gordon. Critics inverted his"
"He lost the second ballot largely thanks to the defeated Alec Pimkin deciding to vote for Kerslake (he later confessed that he wanted to go to his grave knowing he done at least one decent thing). Seymour was also damaged by the donation of a famous and expensive family portrait of the ""First Earl of Bridgewater"" to the British Museum. The move was perceived by members as being opportunistic, and contributed to Seymour getting a lower 2nd ballot total than on the first ballot. In reality, the portrait was stolen from him by his ex-wife Fiona, who wanted to inflict"
"was buried beside his wife'. In 2008, British historian John Charmley (not all of whose works are accepted without question) compared Sir Anthony to Conservative Prime Minister Bonar Law and Dickie to his predecessor Arthur Balfour. Later in 2008, British journalist Peter Stothard said that ""The ""Mary Gloster"""" had been or was a favourite poem both of American writer Mark Twain and of British politician Margaret Thatcher. The Mary Gloster ""The ""Mary Gloster"""" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It is dated 1894, but seems to have been first published in his 1896 collection ""The Seven Seas""."
"Katherine Howard, the daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Elizabeth Home, without her father's consent, offending his guardian the king. The portrait of Stewart by Anthony van Dyck, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, may have been painted to mark his marriage; the Latin inscription can be translated ""Love is stronger than I am"" which may allude to his conflicting loyalties. His younger brothers Lords John and Bernard are shown in a still more famous double Van Dyck portrait in the National Gallery, London - the iconic image of Cavaliers. They were also both killed in"
"Sutherland, the Marquess of Waterford, William Lloyd of Aston Hall and the Marquess of Ailsa at St Margaret's House, beside the Thames and Priory Gardens in Whitehall. His wife, Elizabeth Emma Jones, achieved considerable popularity as a painter, chiefly of portraits. She was one of the youngest persons to exhibit at the Royal Academy; in 1823, at the age of 10, she submitted the ""Watercress Woman."" Her portrait of Soyer was engraved by Henry Bryan Hall. She died in 1842 following complications suffered in a premature childbirth brought on by a thunderstorm. Distraught, Soyer erected a monument to her at"
"Graham Sutherland Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist who is notable for his work in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits. His work was much inspired by landscape and religion, and he designed the tapestry for the re-built Coventry Cathedral. Printmaking, mostly of romantic landscapes, dominated Sutherland's work during the 1920s. He developed his art by working in watercolours before switching to using oil paints in the 1940s. It is these oil paintings, often of surreal, organic landscapes of the Pembrokeshire coast, that secured his reputation as a leading British modern artist."
"of Winston Churchill in a no-confidence vote. His first act as Prime Minister was to ask Germany for a cease-fire. Marcel Duchamp, in this timeline, is still a famous French artist, but this time his appeal in North America is limited to the upper-crust of the Confederacy. He tried to have an affair with Anne Colleton, who exhibited some of his works at Marshlands Plantation. His works were all removed before Marxist rebel Cassius and his gang burned the mansion, and Cassius regretted not being able to destroy any Duchamp paintings, which he saw as eyesores. Ferdinand Foch is a"
"five minutes after being sent from Buckingham Palace. In between the jubilees, in December 1894, Prime Minister John Thompson died at Windsor Castle when there to be admitted by the Queen to the imperial privy council, being struck with a heart attack mere hours after the ceremony. Victoria, then aged and using a wheelchair, was wheeled into St. George's Chapel, where Thompson lay-in-state, and placed a wreath on her former prime minister's coffin. This moment was captured in a painting by Frederic Bell-Smith, but the canvas was destroyed in the burning of the Centre Block in 1916. Victoria herself died"
"which Chesterton did not approve. Today, the NF describes itself as a ""white nationalist organisation founded in 1967 in opposition to multi-racialism and immigration"". Amongst Chesterton's works are ""Portrait of a Leader"" (1937), a hagiography of Mosley; ""Why I left Mosley"" (1938), which broke from his earlier work; ""The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism"" (1948) in which he distanced himself from this form of prejudice; and ""The New Unhappy Lords"", a diatribe against international finance. The last 30 years of Chesterton's life were spent in a modest flat in South Croydon with his wife, Doris. He died on 16 August 1973. A."
"Lord Snowdon away from her, afraid that seeing him would distress her further. In February 1976, a picture of Margaret and Llewellyn in swimsuits on Mustique was published on the front page of the ""News of the World"" tabloid. The press portrayed Margaret as a predatory older woman and Llewellyn as her toyboy lover. On 19 March 1976, the Snowdons publicly acknowledged that their marriage had irretrievably broken down. Some politicians suggested removing Margaret from the civil list. Labour MPs denounced her as ""a royal parasite"" and a ""floosie"". In May 1978, she was taken ill, and diagnosed as suffering"
"law will primarily prevent other governmental officers such as agency heads and Speakers of the House from commissioning official portraits using federal funds. The Presidential portrait of George Washington was famously rescued by the First Lady Dolley Madison when the British burned down the White House in the War of 1812. President Theodore Roosevelt's official portrait was originally commissioned to Théobald Chartran in 1902, but when Roosevelt saw the final product he hated it and hid it in the darkest corner of the White House. When family members called it the ""Mewing Cat"" for making him look so harmless, he"
"obsessed with spiritualism. Other characters include the pompous literary hack Mr. Barbecue-Smith, the cynical Mr. Scogan (who has elements of Bertrand Russell and of Norman Douglas), the libertine Ivor Lombard, and the ascetic and melancholy Vicar and his wife. The novel contains an unflattering portrait of the ageing H. H. Asquith, former prime minister and still leader of the opposition at the time, thinly disguised as Mr. Callamay, ""a ci-devant Prime Minister feebly toddling across the lawn after any pretty girl"". The novel mentions his “Roman profile”, and also that young women were reluctant to go on car journeys alone"
"the farce of placing money in a Savings Bank, then borrowing an equal amount from the same bank for daily expenditure. Denied Government support, nevertheless Sutherland continued to spend time and energy on his unpaid public duties. Eventually he was forced, in a weak market, to sell his Dunrobin estate and all his personal property and live at his son's farm near Mount Gambier. His wife died, then the farm was destroyed by bushfire. He resided im Mount Gambier, then Narracoorte, alternated between his two daughters. He died at Magill on 30 August 1879, of the debilities of old age."
"Street, the official residence of the prime minister, who at the time was Clarissa's uncle, Winston Churchill. Eden remains the only British Prime Minister to have been divorced (although he was one of nine to have been married twice). There was criticism of the marriage in the ""Church Times""—""Mr. Eden's action this week shows how far the climate of public opinion in this matter has changed for the worse""—and from some others in the Anglican church, including the Archbishop of Sydney, who drew parallels with Edward VIII's having given up the throne to marry an American divorcée. Harold Macmillan, among"
"personal relationships after that time, apart from with Ishbel, who cared for him for the rest of his life. Following his wife's death, MacDonald commenced a relationship with Lady Margaret Sackville. In the 1920s and 1930s he was frequently entertained by the society hostess Lady Londonderry, which was much disapproved of in the Labour Party since her husband was a Conservative cabinet minister. MacDonald's unpopularity in the country following his stance against Britain's involvement in the First World War spilled over into his private life. In 1916, he was expelled from Moray Golf Club in Lossiemouth for supposedly bringing the"