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Wartime Portrait Drawing Prime Minister Leonard Winston Churchill C1941

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This Historic wartime portrait drawing features Prime Minister Leonard Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA C1941. With exceptional attention to detail and historical accuracy, this piece captures the essence of one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. Own a piece of history and display this remarkable drawing with pride.
Impress your clients & guests in your office or home with this wartime historic portrait of the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Title "Winston Churchill Prime Minister Early WW2 years".
Subject portraiture quarter length front profile view of the known historic Winston Churchill during his early WW2 wartime years as Prime Minister. He is wearing his Homborg hat & herringbone tweed jacket, he is looking towards the left in his powerful gaze.
Medium pencil on paper.
Signed by the British portrait artist G Harrington.
The National Archives, Kew holds a similar portrait of Winston Churchill also by G. Harrington. See reference INF 3/64.
A rather nice display size with the frame being 56.3 cm high and 51 cm wide.
Set in a recent Larson Juhl Venice reverse profile moulding design in a bronze foil finish paint colour finish in a Jenitri wood frame, with a white and gold border mount together with a protective AR70 glass front, which really enhances this work of art.
Circa 1941 mid 20th century early 1940's during WW2.
Biography of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire into the wealthy, aristocratic Spencer family.
He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900. As First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli campaign, but after it proved a disaster, was demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigned in November 1915 and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East. After two years out of Parliament, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning sterling in 1925 to the gold standard, depressing the UK economy.
In May 1940, he became prime minister, succeeding Neville Chamberlain. Churchill formed a national government and oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an "iron curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. Between his terms, he wrote several books recounting his experience during the war. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. He lost the 1950 election but was returned to office in 1951. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, especially Anglo-American relations and preservation of what remained of the British Empire with India now no longer part of it. Domestically, his government completed the development of a nuclear weapon. In declining health, Churchill resigned in 1955, remaining an MP until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral.
The National Archives, Kew holds a similar portrait of Winston Churchill. Reference INF 3/64.
Provenance Kitching’s George Street, Grimsby, Picture Framer and Fine Art Dealer & Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Drawing surface is in very good order, having some foxing staining to the paper surface in places commensurate with usage & age. Frame has some imperfections commensurate with being handmade.
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Dimensions in centimetres of frame

Height (56.3 cm)
Width (51 cm)
Depth (2 cm)