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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) CHANDOR, Douglas.
Colour print of Chandor's portrait of Churchill in RAF uniform.
Signed beneath on the original card mount, "Douglas Chandor, 1946" at the right-hand side, "Winston S. Churchill, 1950" to the left. After being discharged as wounded towards the close of WWI , Chandor enrolled at the Slade, concentrating on portraiture. His first major commission was of the barrister Sir Edward Marshall-Hall and when this was exhibited at the RA it attracted numerous further commissions including one to paint the Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor. This portrait drew "half London" to the Grieves Gallery and an invitation to portray the heads of state at the Imperial Conference in London in 1923 followed. Despite his critical success Chandor was still struggling commercially and moved to America in the hope of boosting his fortunes. His first exhibition in New York in 1927 led to an invitation to paint Hoover and his entire cabinet. Together with his earlier British "Society" work this helped establish him as one of the World's fore-most political portraitists. The present portrait formed a pair with one of Churchill's wife, Clementine. The image was used on the cover of Time magazine in 1948, and the original purchased by Bernard Baruch for $25000 and presented by him to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 1960.
235mm x 185mm. Tipped onto plain card mount. Short split at edge of gum mounting, but overall very good, now window mounted, framed and glazed.
