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Painting à deux: Churchill’s and Alexander’s Portraits of Lake Como, 1945

25
Jun
2020
By PAUL RAFFERTY
Como
Churchill rarely painted scene with someone else, and only once with a field marshal. Their Lake Como oils offer a glimpse of friendship and technique.
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Tags: Claude Auchinleck, Duke of Edinburgh, Edward Seago, Harold Alexander, HMY Britannia, Impressionism, Lake Como, Sarah Churchill, Winston S. Churchill,
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“In Defeat—Defiance.” The Java POWs and a Work of Art and Resistance

29
May
2020
By FRANK WILLIAMS and MEG PARKES
POWs
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.
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Tags: All Saints Church Jakarta, Andrew Atholl Duncan, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Batavia, Battle of Java, Battle of Singapore, David Hillhouse, FEPOW, Frank Williams, Jakarta, Java, John Baxter, Meg Parkes, National Memorial Arboretum, Ronald Williams, Royal Artillery, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, Tandjong Priok, Toc H, Winston S. Churchill, Zentsuji,
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