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An episode of the Netflix series The Crown refers to the occasion of the public presentation to Churchill, in which Churchill wryly joked (as John Lithgow’s version did in The Crown), that the portrait was “a remarkable example of modern art.” The comment was not meant as a compliment.

Lady Spencer-Churchill had previously destroyed other portraits of her husband that she disliked, including sketches by Walter Sickert and Paul Maze. Many commentators were aghast at the destruction of the work of art, and Sutherland condemned it as an act of vandalism others upheld the Churchills' right to dispose of their property as they saw fit. She had hidden the Sutherland portrait in the cellars at Chartwell and employed her private secretary Grace Hamblin and Hamblin's brother to remove it in the middle of the night and burn it in a remote location. After the death of Lady Spencer-Churchill in 1977, it came to light the following year that she had destroyed the painting within a year of its arrival at Chartwell, by breaking it into pieces and having them incinerated to prevent it from causing further distress to her husband. The painting was intended to hang in the Houses of Parliament after Churchill's death, but after the public presentation, it was instead given as a personal gift to Churchill himself, who took it to Chartwell and refused to display it as he found the portrait deeply unflattering. The painting was presented to Churchill by both Houses of Parliament at a public ceremony in Westminster Hall on his 80th birthday on 30 November 1954. Sutherland received 1,000 guineas for the painting, a sum funded by donations from members of the House of Commons and House of Lords.

In 1954 Graham Sutherland was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom. Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, circa 1970s, full-length oil on canvas portrait of Winston Churchill seated, some cracking and flaking of paint surface, 96.5 x 77.5 cm, indistinct West Dulwich artist details written in ink to verso, together with a similar portrait of Churchill after the Sutherland portrait, rendered in coloured chalks on wove, 76 x 61 cm, framed and glazed

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