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Sir Winston Churchill, Cap d’Ail, Alpes-Maritimes C489, 1952. Royal Academy of Arts, London. © Churchill Heritage Ltd.
Sir Winston Churchill came to painting relatively late in life, at the age of forty, and it immediately became a passionate, life-long hobby.
Dr Lucy Davis is the co-curator of Winston Churchill: The Painter, the first retrospective exhibition of the former Prime Minister's painting since his death in 1965. The exhibition brings together a selection of nearly sixty of his paintings, from 1915 to c. 1955, which shows the range of subject matter of this ambitious amateur, who sought advice from the leading artists of the time.
Lucy will talk us through the exhibition, the curatorial choices behind the selection and arrangement of works, and the insights she has gained into the key role that painting played in Churchill's extraordinary life. She is the author of the catalogue entries and overall editor of the Wallace Collection publication, Winston Churchill: The Painter.
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