Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965. Statesman, James Guthrie, circa 1920

This portrait was completed shortly after the first world war in which churchill served successfully as first lord of the admiralty, minister of munitions and secretary for war with responsibility for demobilisation. The most vigorous and highly finished among a series representing contemporary statesmen, the picture was painted in preparation for his great commission ‘statesmen of the great war’. Churchill was a member of parliament for dundee from 1908-22. He went on to serve as prime minister during the second world war from 1940-45. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: circa 1920. Dimensions: height: 91.5 cm (36 in); width: 71.1 cm (27.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Winston Churchill. Collection: Scottish National Gallery. Sir Winston Churchill (statesman)