1948
Celebrated war-time portrait. A celebrated war-time portrait of Churchill taken on 1 April 1942, by Walter Stoneman, self-styled 'the Man's Photographer'.
Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), was employed as a photographer for the large, established firm of J. Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London, working his way up by 1913 to the position of Managing Director. In 1917 he approached the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, James Milner, with an ambitious idea for a National Photographic Record. The Record was set up to photograph every eminent British person, with a photograph of each to be kept as a permanent record in the Gallery's reference collection. Stoneman photographed some 7,000 sitters on the Gallery's behalf; he worked on the Record for forty-one years, adding 100-200 portraits each year.
Silver gelatin print of Churchill seated, half-length, looking into the camera, mounted on plain card, signed on the mount, 'Winston S. Churchill 1948', the photographer's stamp on the reverse; framed and glazed (framed size 400 x 340 mm), toning to mount (as usual), otherwise near-fine.
Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), was employed as a photographer for the large, established firm of J. Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London, working his way up by 1913 to the position of Managing Director. In 1917 he approached the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, James Milner, with an ambitious idea for a National Photographic Record. The Record was set up to photograph every eminent British person, with a photograph of each to be kept as a permanent record in the Gallery's reference collection. Stoneman photographed some 7,000 sitters on the Gallery's behalf; he worked on the Record for forty-one years, adding 100-200 portraits each year.
Silver gelatin print of Churchill seated, half-length, looking into the camera, mounted on plain card, signed on the mount, 'Winston S. Churchill 1948', the photographer's stamp on the reverse; framed and glazed (framed size 400 x 340 mm), toning to mount (as usual), otherwise near-fine.
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