Lot 164
  • 164

Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., HON. R.A., 1874-1965

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Description

  • Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., HON. R.A.
  • A View of the River L'Oise (after Charles François Daubigny)
  • oil on canvas
  • 57x82cm.; 22½x32¼in.

Provenance

Mr. Charles Clore Esq., London 

Exhibited

New York, World's Fair, 1965

Literature

David Coombs, Churchill, His Paintings, New York 1967, no. 162, illustrated p.140
David Coombs, Sir Winston Churchill's Life Through His Paintings, 2003, no. C.162, illustrated p. 94 (Fig. 172)

Catalogue Note

The present work is one of a number of copies Churchill was known to have made from Daubigny’s painting Le Passeur de l’Oise of 1864.  The Daubigny painting belonged to Churchill’s cousin Sunny, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, before it was sold at auction in 1924.  Churchill would have seen the painting at Blenheim Palace, his birth place and the house where he was a regular visitor during his lifetime.