🌍 Europe 8h ago · Rosalind Ormiston

Was Churchill any good at painting?

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Was Churchill any good at painting?
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The enormous bronze sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square recently had red paint sloshed over it by a political activist. Britain’s wartime leader might have appreciated the medium if not the execution, because he was a painter too.

In 1915, Churchill stood down as first lord of the Admiralty – the political head of the Royal Navy – following the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. His wife, Clementine, said she thought he would die of grief in political exile. Churchill described

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