This portrait of Churchill is incredibly rare, and could fetch an eyewatering sum at auction
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA very rare, and signed, portrait of Britain's most famous Prime Minister is about to go up for auction - and could attract an eyewatering sum.
Artist Paul Trevillion drew the pen-and-ink portrait of wartime leader Winston Churchill in 1955. It was drawn after he famously ordered another painting to be destroyed.
Now, the artwork is believed to be capable of fetching around £1m when it goes up for auction at Hansons Auctioneers. Trevillion was inspired to paint a smiling Churchill after the former PM bitterly complained about a portrait by artist Graham Sutherland a year earlier. READ MORE: 'The hatred for the English in North Wales is astounding, we will not go back' Churchill famously hated Sutherland's painting which had been commissioned for his 80th birthday showing him slumped in a chair and staring blankly ahead.
On seeing the painting, he told his private secretary, Anthony Montague Browne, "I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand." It was reportedly thrown onto a bonfire a month after Churchill's death in January 1965 on the orders of his wife Clemmie.
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