The programme ended with Mr Mould suggesting that evidence might one day emerge, adding: “You could say that Churchill lives to fight another day.” Although the picture had been found in the 1960s, in the coal-shed of a London house once owned by Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, Churchill experts still required further evidence. They believed in the attribution, along with Mr Rafferty, who detected Churchill’s pencil-marks and palette of colours. The episode, presented by Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce, had established that the painting depicted St-Paul-de-Vence and unearthed evidence placing the great man at the scene. Its foreword is by Prince Charles, who pays tribute to him “for painting such a vivid picture of the artist, Winston Churchill”.īut perhaps the most significant discovery was succeeding where the BBC failed. It is among dozens of exciting new discoveries about Churchill’s paintings which Mr Rafferty is to publish in a forthcoming book titled Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera, following five years’ of research. “This photograph is undeniable,” Mr Rafferty told the Telegraph.
It had been overlooked because it had been mis-titled, but it means that Churchill experts have finally authenticated the picture. Now British artist Paul Rafferty has uncovered a “smoking gun”, a thumbnail photograph of that very painting - the fountain of St-Paul-de-Vence - at Chartwell, Churchill’s family home in Kent.
WINSTON CHURCHILL PAINTING PICTURE SERIES
Art detectives on the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? television series tried in vain in 2015 to prove that a painting of a sun-drenched village scene on the French Riviera was by Sir Winston Churchill.īut experts on the wartime leader rejected the attribution, partly because there was not enough documentary evidence.
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