Whose 1954 portrait of Winston Churchill was given to the subject and destroyed on the orders of his wife?
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"Churchill in 1977, it became clear that she had the painting destroyed some months after it was delivered. Churchill was an elder statesman in 1954, then towards the end of his second period as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Sutherland had a reputation as a modernist painter with some recent successful portraits, such as Somerset Maugham in 1949. He was drawn to capturing the real person: some sitters considered his disinclination to flattery as a form of cruelty or disparagement. Sutherland and Churchill had very different conceptions of the painting. Churchill hoped to be depicted in his robes as"
"Clementine Churchill Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, (; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill and a life peer in her own right. Although legally the daughter of Henry Montague Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier (a daughter of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie), her paternity is a subject of much debate, as Lady Blanche was well known for infidelity. After Sir Henry found Lady Blanche with a lover in 1891, she managed to avert her husband's suit for divorce because of his own infidelities, and thereafter the couple separated. Lady Blanche maintained that"
"of Somerset Maugham and Lord Beaverbrook among the most famous. Beaverbrook regarded his portrait by Sutherland, which clearly depicted him as cunning and reptilian, as both an 'outrage' and a 'masterpiece'. Sutherland's Portrait of Winston Churchill (1954) greatly upset the sitter, who initially refused to accept its presentation. It was subsequently destroyed on the orders of Lady Churchill. However, some of Sutherland's studies for the portrait have survived. In all, Sutherland painted over fifty portraits, often of European aristocrats or senior businessmen. Following the Churchill portrait, Sutherland's portraits of, among others, Konrad Adenauer and the Queen Mother established him as"
"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"
"busts of Churchill, and a small bronze sculpture of Churchill with his wife Clementine, all by Oscar Nemon. Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947. Epstein was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to create a sculpture of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in August 1945, after the end of the Second World War and shortly after Churchill lost the 1945 UK general election. Two casts have been displayed in the Oval Office. Another remains on display in the atrium of Churchill College, Cambridge. Epstein applied to become a"
"buried next to those of her husband within the Churchill plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Six months after her death, on 17 December 2014, Sotheby's London auctioned 255 items out of her collection on behalf of her heirs, including paintings by and memorabilia attached to her father, Winston S. Churchill. According to Sotheby's, the sale ""realised an outstanding total of £15,441,822, well above pre-sale expectations of £3.6-5.5 million."" Mary Soames married the Conservative politician Christopher Soames (later created Baron Soames) in 1947 and they had five children: A list of the titles Lady Soames held in"
"Statue of Winston Churchill, Palace of Westminster The statue of Winston Churchill is a standing bronze statue of statesman and writer Winston Churchill, situated in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, part of the Palace of Westminster complex in Westminster, Central London. Churchill is depicted mid-stride, with his hands on his hips. Churchill and Nemon first met in Marrakech in 1951, where Nemon sculptured a terracotta bust that Churchill's wife, Lady Clementine Churchill said that it ""represents to me my husband as I see him and as I think of him"". In 1952, on"
"July 1966, when Churchill organised a London exhibition of Nocho's paintings at the home of Edwina Dixon, the daughter-in-law of British ambassador to France Pierson Dixon. Nocho gave a number of his paintings to Churchill's friend Pete Ballard, which the latter donated to North Carolina Central University in 2013. However, in the end Churchill and Nocho never married. In her 1981 autobiography, she described him as a ""vision in Levis, a jet-age troubadour and a one-man debating society"". She hinted in her published poetry that her late father had strongly disapproved of her relationship with Nocho, writing: And: Lobo Nocho"
"Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947. Epstein was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to create a sculpture of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in August 1945, after the end of the Second World War and shortly after Churchill lost the 1945 UK general election. Two casts have been displayed in the Oval Office. Another remains on display in the atrium of Churchill College, Cambridge. Epstein applied to become a British official war artist after he was conscripted in the First World War, but his application was rejected."
"Arthur Pan Professor Arthur Pan (floruit 1920–1960) was a Hungarian artist and portrait painter, whose subjects included Winston Churchill. Arthur Pan was born in Hungary and studied at the Budapest Academy of Art and in Paris at the Académie Julian. He came to England as a refugee from the Nazis. He painted in England 1920 - 1960 as a portraitist working primarily in oil. He painted portraits of historical personages, including Sir Winston Churchill. On 25 December 1943, ""The Illustrated London News"" carried a double page spread of ""Mr Churchill—A Characteristic Portrait of the Prime Minister from a Painting By"
"became an architect. Arthur Pan Professor Arthur Pan (floruit 1920–1960) was a Hungarian artist and portrait painter, whose subjects included Winston Churchill. Arthur Pan was born in Hungary and studied at the Budapest Academy of Art and in Paris at the Académie Julian. He came to England as a refugee from the Nazis. He painted in England 1920 - 1960 as a portraitist working primarily in oil. He painted portraits of historical personages, including Sir Winston Churchill. On 25 December 1943, ""The Illustrated London News"" carried a double page spread of ""Mr Churchill—A Characteristic Portrait of the Prime Minister from"
"a portrait by Graham Sutherland to mark his eightieth birthday; this gift backfired as Churchill hated the portrait and his wife had it burnt. In December 1954, it was announced that the London County Council would be seeking a Compulsory purchase order for Price's home in Forest Hill for a new housing scheme. Price was critical of the way trade unions operated, claiming in a speech in February 1956 that a majority of workers in the country were forcing inefficient working methods on management. In April that year, he had the idea for forming a ""Middle Class Alliance"", which was"
"individuals who are listed in a book which was deposited in the library at Chartwell on Churchill's birthday, 30 November 1973. The statue was unveiled on 1 November 1973 by Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, Winston Churchill's widow. Queen Elizabeth II had declined to unveil the statue herself, indicating that she thought it right that Lady Spencer-Churchill should do so, although the Queen did attend the ceremony, and gave a speech in which she mentioned that Churchill had turned down a dukedom because he wanted to spend his remaining years in the House of Commons. Union Flags covered the statue, which were"
"and Lady Mary Churchill. In the Churchill portrait, the family is assembled beneath a rich hanging curtain on a raised dais; all the figures are lifesize. Closterman probably painted the portrait around the beginning of 1698. Closterman supposedly had so many disputes with Sarah Churchill that her husband remarked, ""It has given me more trouble to reconcile my wife and you than to fight a battle"". The story is told by Horace Walpole. The Churchill portrait is now part of the collection at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. For many years John Closterman and his artist brother John Baptist Closterman have"
"Anita Leslie Anita Theodosia Moira King (née Leslie; first married name Rodzianko; 21 November 1914 – 5 November 1985), generally known as Anita Leslie, was an Irish-born biographer and writer. She was a first cousin once removed of the British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. The eldest of three children born in New York City, to a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family (49,968 acres). Anita Theodosia Moira Leslie, alongside her brothers (Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet and Desmond Leslie) were born to Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet (a.k.a. Shane Leslie) and his wife, Majorie Ide, the Vermont-born daughter of"
"former private secretary, Jock Colville, revealed his knowledge of the affair with Churchill in a 1985 interview with Correlli Barnett, stating that Churchill had met Doris on holidays in the South of France at a villa owned by actress Maxine Elliott. Doris was one of many women whose portraits were painted by Churchill. In 1940, Doris went to the United States, where she found it difficult to resume her earlier career as a courtesan. In 1942, she obtained Winston Churchill's assistance to return to the UK. On her return she was met by her ex-husband, who, according to some sources,"
"in the finished paintings. Seen by many of his contemporaries as evidence of the artist's decline, Sickert's late works are also his most forward-looking, and prefigure the practices of Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter. Other paintings from Sickert's late period were adapted from illustrations by Victorian artists such as Georgie Bowers and John Gilbert. Sickert, separating these illustrations from their original context and painting them in poster-like colours so that the narrative and spatial intelligibility partly dissolved, called the resulting works his ""English Echoes"". Sickert painted an informal portrait of Winston Churchill in about 1927. Churchill's wife Clementine introduced him"
"items are originals or reproductions of art given to the Marshalls, including a reproduction of ""View of Tinherir"", painted by Sir Winston Churchill in Morocco in 1951 and given to the Marshalls in 1953. The original ""View of Tinherir"" was sold at auction by Marshall's granddaughter Kitty Winn in 2006 for £612,800 ($1.2 million), a record price for a Churchill painting at that time. Another reproduction is ""Evening"", by Russian artist Vassily Baksheyev. The original was a gift to Marshall from Vyacheslav Molotov, foreign minister of the Soviet Union, in 1947 in appreciation for Marshall's efforts in World War II."
"The portraits were all destroyed in the coup d'état of July, 1958. A head and shoulders portrait of Churchill by Pan was auctioned at Christie's Fine Art Auction House in 1981. Another portrait of Churchill by Pan, completed in 1943 during World War II, hangs in the American Embassy in London, England. Pan made two copies of paintings by Willem van de Velde the Younger, ""The Shore at Sheveningen"" and ""Dutch Vessels Close Inshore at Low Tide"", 13.5 x 18.5"", both of which he signed. They came up for auction in the UK in 2001. Pan had a son who"
"John Spencer-Churchill (artist) John George Spencer-Churchill (31 May 1909 in London – 23 June 1992) was an English painter, sculptor and a stockbroker who was the nephew of Sir Winston Churchill. Spencer-Churchill was the son of John Strange Spencer-Churchill (1880–1947) and Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie (1885–1941). His sister Clarissa married Anthony Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, wife of the Prime Minister when Winston Churchill retired in 1955, and later the Countess of Avon in 1961 on his elevation to the peerage. His paternal grandparents were Lord Randolph"
"tower, often taking highly circuitous routes around the vast clubhouse. One of the items damaged in the blast was the 1915 portrait of Winston Churchill (a member of the club), by Ernest Townsend. Ironically, after 25 years of being hidden from sight, it had only just been put on display the year before. Painted in the year of the Dardanelles Campaign, Churchill was soon unavailable for unveiling the portrait as he went into exile in the trenches. After his return, his strong support for the Lloyd George coalition meant that from 1916 he proved to be ""persona non-grata"" at the"
"involved with music halls and their folk. There is an anecdote that at a dinner party at which Oliver was present, Churchill was asked whom he most admired. Churchill replied, ""Mussolini"". When asked why, he replied, ""Because he had the good sense to shoot his son-in-law!"" Oliver and Sarah divorced in 1945. It was noted that Oliver never capitalised on his relationship with Churchill despite attractive offers. Oliver married Natalie Frances Conder in 1946 in Westminster, London and they had one daughter. He died in Johannesburg, South Africa, aged 66. Relatives still live in Vienna. Vic Oliver wrote an autobiography:"
"""English Quarter"" of Oslo, Norway; and in British Place, New Orleans, USA. All were cast in London by Meridian Sculpture Foundry. Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is located on a spot referred to in the 1950s by Churchill as ""where my statue will go"". It was unveiled by his widow Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill in 1973, at a ceremony attended by the serving Prime Minister and four former Prime Ministers, while Queen Elizabeth II"
"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"
"Sir Winston Churchill) and his second wife June Osborne (daughter of Colonel Rex Hamilton Osborne), and was half-sister to the younger Winston Churchill, who was born to Randolph Churchill and his first wife Pamela Beryl Digby, better known as Pamela Harriman. She appeared, at the age of two, in the portrait of Winston Churchill and his family which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. She went to Fritham School for Girls, where she was Head Girl, and then Ladymede school, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She worked at Lepra, the charity for leprosy sufferers, and then briefly at London Weekend Television. In"
"style her ""the Dowager Countess of Avon"". Clarissa Eden Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (""née"" Spencer-Churchill; born 28 June 1920) is the widow of Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977), who was UK Prime Minister from 1955–1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, and then becoming Countess of Avon in 1961 on her husband's elevation to the peerage. She is also the niece of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Her memoir, sub-titled ""From Churchill to Eden"", was published in 2007 under the name of Clarissa Eden."