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Graham Sutherland

(1903-1980), Painter

Graham Vivian Sutherland

Sitter in 62 portraits
Artist associated with 23 portraits
One of a generation of students who, influenced by Samuel Palmer, revived the art of etching with a romantic vision of the English landscape. The Pembrokeshire coast was a lifelong source of inspiration. His acclaimed painting of the writer Somerset Maugham (1949) began a revival in the art of portraiture. Sutherland contributed to the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and was an Official War Artist. He designed the Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph for Coventry Cathedral. Sutherland's portrait of Churchill, to mark his 80th birthday caused a sensation at its unveiling in 1954, and was subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife.

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Graham Sutherland, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5337

Graham Sutherland

by Graham Sutherland
sketchbook, watercolour and pencil, 82 pages, circa 1945-1946
NPG 5337

Somerset Maugham, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5326

Somerset Maugham

by Graham Sutherland
sketchbook, 104 pages, 1949
NPG 5326

Somerset Maugham, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5327

Somerset Maugham

by Graham Sutherland
black chalk, pencil and gouache, 1953
NPG 5327

Somerset Maugham, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5328

Somerset Maugham

by Graham Sutherland
black chalk on tracing paper, 1953
NPG 5328

Winston Churchill, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5332

Winston Churchill

by Graham Sutherland
oil on canvas, 1954
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5332

Winston Churchill, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5334

Winston Churchill

by Graham Sutherland
pen and ink and pencil, 1954
NPG 5334

Winston Churchill, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 5330

Winston Churchill

by Graham Sutherland
sketchbook, 14 pages, 1954
NPG 5330

Sir Charles Clore, by Graham Sutherland - NPG 6465

Sir Charles Clore

by Graham Sutherland
pencil, crayon and biro, 1967
NPG 6465

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, after Graham Sutherland - NPG D31601

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

after Graham Sutherland
photographic collotype printed in colours, (1952)
NPG D31601

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