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Churchill portrait artist Graham Sutherland gets blue plaque • Apr. 9, 2025, 5:43 AM ET (BBC)

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Also Known As Graham Vivian Sutherland
Born August 24, 1903 • London • England
Died February 17, 1980 (aged 76) • London • England
Movement / Style Surrealism

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Graham Sutherland.
Coventry Cathedral tapestry
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Georges Rouault
French artist
Jacques Villon
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Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
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American artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
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French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
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van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Alexandre-François Desportes: Landscape with a Dog and Partridges
Alexandre-François Desportes
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Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
Zorn, Anders: Dagmar
Anders Zorn
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Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
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