Winston Churchill's Alter Ego (opens in new tab)

Cap d’Ail, Alpes-Maritimes, by Sir Winston Churchill, 1952. An exhibition in London re-introduces Churchill as a painter—a hobby he took up in the summer of 1915, amidst the depressive slump that followed his ousting from the Admiralty By Sarah Hyde Remarkably, it was not until he turned 40 that Winston Churchill entered an art gallery. Before then, the closest Churchill had come to art was an affection for cartoons. In the summer of 1915, however, he picked up a paintbrush that belonged to h...