Famous portrait of Winston Churchill stolen from Ottawa hotel
It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sirnoticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn’t hanging properly and didn’t look the same as the others in the collection. An inspection revealed the photo in the frame was not the original, but it is not clear how long the copy has been hanging.Police have been informed and the hotel is seeking information from the public about the theft.
Six of the portraits are displayed in the Reading Lounge and another nine in the downtown hotel’s Karsh Suite.The photographer and his wife lived at the Château Laurier for 18 years. Karsh’s studio was in the hotel for 20 years, from 1972 on, and it was the location of several of his famous portraits, including one of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela in 1990.The Churchill portrait changed Karsh’s life, according to the artist’s website.
“When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken; some neck,” he said.
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