1 British WW2 Portrait Oil Painting Prime Minister Winston Churchill Follower of John Archibald Alexander Berrie.Impress your clients & guests in your office or home with this wartime historic portrait of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.Title “Winston Churchill Wartime WW2 British Leader Prime Minister” Follower of John Archibald Alexander Berrie” C1940.Subject portraiture half length front profile view of the known historic Winston Churchill during his early WW2 wartime years, he is wearing a smart white dress shirt with a black and spotted dickiei bow. With black dinner jacket. He is looking directly at the viewer in his commanding authoritative gaze.Medium oil on canvas with a recently added board cover to the back.Unsigned British school artist follower in the style of John Archibald Alexander Berrie.A rather nice display size with the frame being 71 cm high and 61 cm wide.Set in a recent decorative gilt floral frame, which really enhances this painting further.Circa 1940 mid 20th century during WW2.Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill[a] 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.He was 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 econo...