Public and Private: Winston Churchill in Photographs
Past display archive
27 October 2015 - 5 June 2016
Room 31: case display
Free
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill, this display gives a broad picture of Churchill’s many roles through works from the Photographs Collection. The steadfast wartime leader is shown in iconic portraits and morale-boosting ephemera, while press prints, tear sheets and snapshots show him as a correspondent, soldier, painter, writer, friend and family man.
Alongside studio portraits which became emblematic of Churchill’s bulldog-like persistence, the display features photographs of a Churchill as a young man and informal portraits at home with his family. An album of personal snapshots of Clementine and Winston Churchill’s voyage with Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne in 1934, during Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’, will be displayed for the first time.
Winston Churchill
by George Charles Beresford
1903
NPG x6471
Winston Churchill
by Cecil Beaton
1940
NPG x40055
Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle; Winston Churchill
by Cecil Beaton
13 November 1944
NPG x40056
See also
First World War Centenary at the National Portrait Gallery, 2014 - 2018
All the catalogued portraits of Churchill in the Collection
Churchill family tree
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Related portraits
- Winston Churchill (NPG P705)
- Winston Churchill (NPG P490(16))
- Winston Churchill (NPG x6471)
- Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill; Winston Churchill (NPG x137584)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x27772)
- Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Bt and Winston Churchill and three unknown others (NPG x32105)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x6120)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x40055)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x199060)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x6140)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x6130)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x17071)
- Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle; Winston Churchill (NPG x40056)
- Winston Churchill; Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (NPG x199243)
- Unknown sitter, possibly Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Bt; Winston Churchill; Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (NPG x199244)
- Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis; Winston Churchill; Wladyslaw Anders (NPG x199247)
- Winston Churchill inspecting the Victory Parade, Berlin (NPG x194064)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x138997)
- The Churchill family (NPG x45179)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x45172)
- Kathleen Frances ('Katharine') Sutherland (née Barry); Graham Sutherland; Winston Churchill (NPG x88059)
- Winston Churchill giving his 80th birthday speech at Westminster Hall (NPG x199077)
- Winston Churchill (NPG x194366)
Related sitters
- Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Wladyslaw Anders
- Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
- Violet Helen (née Millar), Countess Attlee
- (Robert) Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon
- Arabella Churchill
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Winston Spencer Churchill
- Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle
- David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir
- Frank McLeavy, Baron McLeavy
- Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Bt
- Julian George Winston Sandys
- Emma Mary Soames
- Sir (Arthur) Nicholas Winston Soames
- Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill
- Graham Vivian Sutherland
- Kathleen Frances ('Katharine') Sutherland (née Barry)
Related artists
- Cecil Beaton
- George Charles Beresford
- Camera Press: London: UK
- Augustus Charles Cooper
- Robert Elliot
- Elliott & Fry
- Jack Esten
- Tim Gidal (Nachum Ignaz Gidalewitsch)
- Elsbeth R. Juda
- Yousuf Karsh
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd
- Reuters
- Edward Lyddell Sawyer
- Walter Stoneman
- Unknown photographer
- Vivienne (Florence Vivienne Entwistle, née Mellish)