Historic Antique Paintings

winston churchill oil portrait painting c1965british wartime prime minister

Description

Very desirable Original Signed Commissioned Portrait Drawing Of Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) �
He wears his trade mark navy blue Polka Dot Bow Tie and black jacket.
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Type of artwork:
Original Oil Painting On Canvas Laid To Board.
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Surface: Canvas
Artist and signature
Initialed JHCP 65 lower right bottom corner
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The artist has captured Churchill�s character with immense realism and accuracy to a standard not easily achieved in the medium of oil paints.-
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Original Oil Portrait Painting Of Winston Churchill British Ex Wartime Prime Minister.
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Dateline: Initials JHCP 65
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A stunning professional portrait painting of Winston Churchill in the year he later died.
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ABOUT CHURCHILL
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 � 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party.
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Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo�Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social security. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign after it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity,
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Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat from Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty before replacing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1940. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against Germany and the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945.
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FRAMED MEASUREMENTS
Height 21.5 Inches ( 54.5 cm )
Width 25.5 Inches (64.75 cm )
Depth. 1.25 Inches ( 3 cm )
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CONDITION
Good Order for age, minor hairpin cracks in the shabby chic frame, but all solId.
Fine minor craquelure and a little fading as expected after 55 years.
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DELIVERY
UK MAinland Next Day Tracked & Recorded Cost �50
Worldwide: Europe �95 / USA & Asia Cost �160
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Quote Our Stock Number: CLC/046
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Internal Ref: CLC/046