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Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland)
painting by Graham Sutherland
The Portrait of Winston Churchill was a painting by English artist Graham Sutherland that depicted the British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, created in It was disliked by Churchill and within a year it had been destroyed.
In Sutherland was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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Sutherland received 1, guineas[a] in compensation for the painting, a sum funded by donations from members of the House of Commons and House of Lords.[2] 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 [3]
Finding the depiction deeply unflattering, Churchill disliked the portrait intensely.
After its public presentation, the painting was taken to his country home at Chartwell but not displayed. For a long time it was assumed that it was destroy