Lot #13 - William Churchill, 1858-1926 (USA)
William Churchill, 1858-1926 (USA)
Estimate: 4 000 - 6 000 £
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Lot Description
William Worcester Churchill (1858-1926).
WW2 Era Portrait of First Lieutenant Harold W. Dana Medical Reserve Corps US Army. Lot includes Harvard diploma medals and patches etc. 1920.
Oil on canvas, size 123 x 101 cm (48 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches)
Upper left and lower left clear, but faintly visible due to the color of the paint signature and year.
William Churchill was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, in 1858 and died in Washington, DC in 1926. He was a painter of figure studies, portraits, female nudes, and landscapes in oil and pastel, and entered the Boston Museum School in 1877. He then trained in Paris in the late 1870s with the French Salon artist Leon Bonnat. Churchill returned to his native Boston to establish his career as a portraitist and a landscape painter. In addition to his membership in the Guild of Boston Artists and the St. Botolph Club, he showed at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and later won awards at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
WW2 Era Portrait of First Lieutenant Harold W. Dana Medical Reserve Corps US Army. Lot includes Harvard diploma medals and patches etc. 1920.
Oil on canvas, size 123 x 101 cm (48 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches)
Upper left and lower left clear, but faintly visible due to the color of the paint signature and year.
William Churchill was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, in 1858 and died in Washington, DC in 1926. He was a painter of figure studies, portraits, female nudes, and landscapes in oil and pastel, and entered the Boston Museum School in 1877. He then trained in Paris in the late 1870s with the French Salon artist Leon Bonnat. Churchill returned to his native Boston to establish his career as a portraitist and a landscape painter. In addition to his membership in the Guild of Boston Artists and the St. Botolph Club, he showed at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and later won awards at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
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Good condition. No visible defects or damages.
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