How in the world did Miss Hamblin manage to keep this secret?? I am glad there weren't any paparazzi photographers around at Chartwell, when the painting was taken out in the dead of night. What a courageous thing for her to do.
The Sutherland portrait was really horrific. WSC had a great comeback line about it. But I can certainly see why Clementine *hated *the thing. (Ms.) Pat Finnegan On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 11:01:27 PM UTC-4, Brad Tolppanen wrote: > > The Daily Telegraph recently had an interesting article on the destruction > of the infamous Graham Sutherland portrait of Winston Churchill in which > Sonia Purnell reveals the painting was burned by Grace Hamblin at the wish > of Clementine Churchill. The article is available at: > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/winston-churchill/11730850/Secret-of-Winston-Churchills-unpopular-Sutherland-portrait-revealed.html > > I have an entry on the destruction of the painting on my Churchill blog > along with a newsreel video from 1954 of the unveiling of the painting and > Churchill’s remarks. The blog is at: > > https://winstonchurchillblog.wordpress.com/ > > > Best, > > Brad > > *********************************** > > Bradley P. Tolppanen > > Author, Churchill in North America, 1929: A Three Month Tour of Canada and > the United States > > https://churchillinnorthamerica.wordpress.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
