Live Auction 588420th Century British Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 38

Amy Katherine Browning (1882-1978)

Portrait of Winston Churchill

Closed15 July 2009

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GBP 8,750

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Amy Katherine Browning (1882-1978)
Portrait of Winston Churchill
signed, inscribed and dated 'a.k.browning/after/Oswald Birley/1951' (upper left)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

with Piano Nobile Gallery, London, where purchased by Rodney Price, July 2003.

Specialist note

The present work is painted after the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952). Birley was friends with Churchill - he gave him painting lessons - and painted a number of portraits of him.