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WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL 1874 - 1965.
Pastel, 13 x 10 inches
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Original sold
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In 1940 the world was in deep crisis with humanity facing its greatest challenge. France had fallen to Hitler along with
most of Europe, leaving Great Britain to stand alone against all the horrors he would have brought to this world. If Britain
had fallen, surrendered, or gone for a compromise peace, long years of evil tyranny would have descended upon Europe and
in time, the world. It would have fallen to Russia to decide whether to challenge Hitler, a very difficult thing for it to
attempt without a powerful ally in Europe, as it would have been for the United States to do so, without a secure base on
the British Isles. Both powers were influenced by Britains will to fight on, a will driven and personified by Winston Churchill.
The battle of Britain was won, and the whole course of world history was altered decidedly for the better.
As the American journalist Edward R. Murrow commented; 'Churchill mobilised the English language and sent it into battle'
'I have nothing to offer' Churchill said, '..but blood toil tears and sweat. You ask what is our policy? I can say it is to wage
war by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all our strength that god can give us; to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. You ask what is our aim? I can
answer in one word; It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road
may be.
What better subject could there be for a portrait painter than this man? ...I just had to take some time out from my
wildlife work to do this.
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