World War 2 Early Wartime Portrait Prime Minister Drawing Leonard Winston Churchill

British original artwork Mid 20th Century 1940s World War 2 portrait drawing of Leonard Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA by George Harrington. Impress your clients & guests in your office or home with this wartime historic portrait of the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Title "Winston Churchill Prime Minister Early World War 2 years". Subject portraiture quarter length front profile view of the known historic Winston Churchill during his early World War 2 wartime years as Prime Minister. He is wearing his Homborg hat & herringbone tweed jacket, he is looking towards the left in his powerful gaze. Medium pencil on paper. Signed by the British portrait artist G Harrington. The National Archives, Kew holds a similar portrait of Winston Churchill also by G. Harrington. See reference Inf 3/64. Set in recent Larson Juhl Venice reverse profile moulding design in a bronze foil finish paint colour finish in a Jenitri wood frame, with a white and gold border mount together with a protective Ar70 glass front, which really enhances this work of art. Title “World War 2 Portrait Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill” By G Harrington C1941. Biography of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Kg Om Ch Td Dl Frs Ra (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of Parliament (Mp) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire into the wealthy, aristocratic Spencer family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative Mp in 1900, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill was president of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers' social security. As First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli campaign, but after it proved a disaster, was demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigned in November 1915 and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East. After two years out of Parliament, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning sterling in 1925 to the gold standard, depressing the UK economy. Out of government during his so-called "wilderness years" in the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for rearmament to counter the threat of militarism in Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In May 1940, he became prime minister, succeeding Neville Chamberlain. Churchill formed a national government and oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an "iron curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. Between his terms, he wrote several books recounting his experience during the war. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. He lost the 1950 election but was returned to office in 1951. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, especially Anglo-American relations and preservation of what remained of the British Empire with India now no longer part of it. Domestically, his government completed the development of a nuclear weapon. In declining health, Churchill resigned in 1955, remaining an Mp until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral. One of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and the rest of the Anglosphere. He is generally viewed as a victorious wartime leader, who defended liberal democracy against the spread of fascism, and as a liberal reformer who spurred the creation of the modern welfare state. However, recent scholarship has been more critical of Churchill, especially with regards to his views on race, and his unwavering commitment to British imperialism. Nonetheless, historians and the British public often rank Churchill as one of the greatest prime ministers in British history. The National Archives, Kew holds a similar portrait of Winston Churchill. Reference Inf 3/64. Provenance Kitching’s George Street, Grimsby, Picture Framer and Fine Art Dealer & Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd. Viewings are welcome by appointment only for customer support please send a message thank you. We offer our clients exceptional professional customer service. Browse our exciting other Fine Art, antiques & collectibles available in our gallery.