Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the 1940s.
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 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.
Title “WW2 Portrait Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill” By G Harrington C1941.
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, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill was president of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers' social security. 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.
Out of government during his so-called "wilderness years" in the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for rearmament to counter the threat of militarism in Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. 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 influ
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the 1940s.
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Ww2 Wartime Portrait Drawing Prime Minister Leonard Winston Churchill
