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Churchill’s Art
The Lion and the Mouse: Did Churchill Desecrate Rubens?
14
Mar
2024
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Did the Prime Minister defile a Rubens? Technically it was possible, especially if Churchill used tempera. But official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert was doubtful: “This story, charming though it is, and often retold, may be typical of (dare I say it?) the wilder shores of oral evidence. Churchill was surely too great an art lover to ‘touch up’ a Rubens.”
Churchill Painting at Eze-sur-Mer
05
Sep
2015
2
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Painting was virtually suspended during World War II, but Churchill took it up immediately after he was dismissed by the electorate in 1945. He made painting visits Lord Beaverbrook’s villa, “La Capponcina,” and in the mid-Fifties he was actively seeking a place of his own on the Riviera.