Finest Hour 178, Fall 2018 Page 16 By Jonathan Dudley Jonathan Dudley retired from the University of Wolverhampton after a career in education A couple of years ago, that would be in 2015, I...

Finest Hour 178, Fall 2018 Page 12 Leo Amery (1873–1955) was a lifelong friend of Winston Churchill, although politically they were often at odds with each other They first met while at school...

Finest Hour 178, Fall 2018 Page 24 By Barry Phipps Barry Phipps is an art historian and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge He wishes to thank Katherine Carter and the staff at Chartwell...

Finest Hour 178, Fall 2018 Page 30 By Katherine Carter Katherine Carter is Project Curator and Collections Manager at Chartwell Last year, Chartwell marked fifty years since its first opening to the public Today,...

Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill’s home in Kent, has opened a new exhibition Clementine Churchill: Speaking for Herself, focusing on the extraordinary life of Churchill’s beloved wife Clementine The exhibition at the...

Finest Hour 175, Winter 2017 Page 26 “A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted” — Winston S Churchill By Edwina Sandys Edwina Sandys is a painter and sculptor A granddaughter of...

Finest Hour 175, Winter 2017 Page 50 By Stefan Buczacki A common trap that people fall into is to refer to Winston Churchill’s beloved country estate in Kent as “ Chartwell...

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While supremely confident and self-assured in most fields of life, Churchill was generally modest about his achievements as a painter; he didn’t aspire to create masterpieces – he never claimed he had ever painted one – and didn’t intend to earn money from his pastime (unlike his other craft of writing). But he did have a certain ambition for his art. In 1921, only six years after he’d first tried his hand with a brush, he is said to have sold up to six paintings he’d exhibited in Paris under the pseudonym Charles Morin at Galerie Druet for the princely sum of £30.00 each. In 1947 he successfully submitted two paintings to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition under the name David Winter (including ‘Winter Sunshine, Chartwell’, which had won a prize in 1927).