Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Introduced by...

Hall conceived and arranged the first exhibition devoted solely to Churchill’s paintings and it opened in Kansas City where Truman pronounced them ‘Damn good’ The exhibition, to which Churchill had somewhat reluctantly...

A documentary made in 1964 about his life as a painter, ‘The other world of Winston Churchill’, was based on Churchill’s Painting as a Pastime It includes footage of Churchill painting,...

Recognition in his final years...

The train was romanticised in countless works of art These include the poem ‘This is the Night Mail’ by WH Auden, which demonstrates that the rail network was not only used...

In Morocco, he patronised the country’s grandest hotel – La Mamounia in Marrakesh: ‘it is the most lovely spot in the world’, Churchill apparently told Roosevelt During his ‘Wilderness Years’ when...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth The hobby Churchill began in 1915, as a diversion from his despair over the Dardanelles disaster, became his constant companion for over forty years But how good...

Churchill didn’t only paint at Chartwell. His easel, brushes and paints accompanied him everywhere - while staying at homes of friends and family (at Hever Castle in Kent where he painted the colonnaded gardens, Breccles in Norfolk, the home of Clementine’s cousin where he painted the woods); on his holidays to the French Riviera (the Churchills rented a house in Cannes for six months in 1922); in Cairo (where he tackled painting the Pyramids), in Morocco, in America and Canada’s Rocky Mountains. Wherever he went, he took his painting paraphernalia. Churchill also painted at one of his favourite places, Blenheim Palace, where he was born and to which he regularly returned throughout his life. Churchill’s early skill with the brush can be seen in paintings completed at Mimizan in Les Landes, south of Bordeaux in France – an area protected from the Atlantic by massive sand dunes and pinewoods – where he stayed as the guest of his friend the Duke of Westminster who had a house there. Lavery, who later stayed at Mimizan with Churchill, painted the same scenes.