Smithsonian Magazine5d
A Thief Replaced This Iconic Churchill Portrait With a Fake. Two Years Later, the Original Has Been Recovered
Karsh took the photograph after Churchill delivered a speech to members of Canada’s parliament to thank them for their war efforts. “My portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life,” Karsh ...
The Washington Post6d
Winston Churchill and the power of English myth
On Aug. 17, 1940, John Colville, Winston Churchill’s private secretary, was walking in the Sussex countryside when he came upon a downed German bomber. It was, writes Erik Larson in “The Splen ...
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The World Gold Council, the trade organization that represents the gold industry, estimates that sales of gold bars and coins ...
Toronto Star6d
The story of a stolen Winston Churchill portrait has captivated industry experts. Here’s why its retrieval is surprising to them
When Jerry Fielder first learned that Yousuf Karsh’s iconic portrait of Winston Churchill had possibly been stolen from the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, he thought it was a mistake. Fielder ...
Winston Churchill portrait "The Roaring Lion" was stolen from a hotel in Canada. Police tracked the photograph to a buyer in Italy.
Ottawa Police found the photograph in Italy and said the buyer plans to hand it back over to Canada during a ceremony in Rome ...
‘The Roaring Lion’ portrait of Winston Churchill stolen from Canadian hotel is found in Italy
Canadian police say a renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been tracked ...
The Daily Telegraph12d
The extraordinary attempt to paint Churchill as the real villain of the Second World War
The legacy of Winston Churchill has been tarnished by some members of the American Right Saviour of Western democracy or racist imperialist? Greatest Briton of all time or villain of the Bengal ...
Toronto Star10d
Mystery of stolen Winston Churchill portrait unravels as police track down renowned Karsh photo
Winston Churchill will soon be scowling once again from the walls of the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa thanks to an international police effort that tracked down the stolen portrait of the former ...
Business Insider5d
How a thief replaced a famous Winston Churchill portrait with a forgery that went unnoticed for months
Thieves stole a famous Winston Churchill portrait from an Ottawa hotel in late 2021. The 1941 portrait was replaced with a forgery and went unnoticed for over 6 months. Police recovered the ...
The New York Times7d
Churchill, Abducted From Canada, Is Found Glowering in Italy
The most famous of the portraits, a scowling Winston Churchill photographed during a ... certainly not one of Mr. Karsh’s gold-toned photographic prints. The photo was flat and lacked the ...
The Daily Telegraph12d
The extraordinary attempt to paint Churchill as the real villain of the Second World War
While enthusiasm for dissecting Winston Churchill’s legacy remains a popular litmus test in the left-right cultural war, we have grown used to the flak for the wartime Prime Minister coming ...
CBS News9d
Winston Churchill portrait "The Roaring Lion" was stolen from a hotel in Canada. Police tracked the photograph to a buyer in Italy.
A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill hung on the walls of the famed Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Canada, for years — but in 2022 it was discovered the iconic photo had been replaced with a ...