Sir Winston Churchill, O.M., C.H., Hon. R.A. (1874-1965)

Mimizan, Landes

Details

Sir Winston Churchill, O.M., C.H., Hon. R.A. (1874-1965)
Mimizan, Landes
signed with initials 'W.S.C.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24½ x 29½ in. (62.3 x 75 cm.)
Painted circa 1927

Provenance

The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, P.C., O.M., thence by descent to The Rt. Hon. Viscount Tenby, T.D., P.C.; Christie's, 12 November 1965, lot 85 (9500 gns.), where purchased by the present owner's father.

Literature

D. Coombs, Churchill his Paintings, London, 1967, no.70, pl.VII.

Lot Essay

Churchill was a regular guest of the Duke of Westminster during the 1920s at Mimizan, his house at Landes near Bordeaux. The present work is from a series of views of the house and was given by Churchill to the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George towards the end of the 1920s while Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Government.

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