Lot Details
Lot 198
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. Mounted photograph; dated December 1943 and signed (as Winston S. Churchill) on the mount.
. This is a particularly good example of Walter S. Stoneman's famous wartime portrait of Churchill seated, widely used for official purposes by the Prime Minister. It measures 8 x 6 1/8 inches (20 x 15.5 cm), and is laid down to the card mount of issue. The reverse of the frame bears a portion of an envelope with the typed words "With the compliments of the Prime Minister," beneath his official seal. Fine, with a strong, dark signature; not examined out of frame.
This photograph was a gift to Laurence A. Steinhardt, who in 1943 was the United States Ambassador to Turkey. His brief from the President was to help bring Turkey into the Allied camp. In this capacity, he was present at the Second Cairo Conference, attended by Churchill, Roosevelt, and President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. The Conference was held between December 4 and December 6 of 1943, and from the date of the inscription it seems likely that Churchill presented this photograph to Steinhardt at the Conference or shortly thereafter. A contemporary photograph of the event shows Ambassador Steinhardt standing immediately behind Roosevelt. Steinhardt had a distinguished diplomatic career, and was variously United States Ambassador to Sweden, Peru, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and Canada (he died in a plane crash during his tenure in that last office).
Provenance:
Laurence A. Steinhardt, United States Ambassador to Turkey, acquired December 1943.
The Steinhardt-Sherlock Trust
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