The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph. By Ian Austen Like many people in Ottawa, I ...

Photographer Yousuf Karsh credits the portrait with changing his life. A famous portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appears to have found itself at the center of a heist.

Yousuf Karsh stands for a photo next to the “Roaring Lion” portrait during the preview of his 80th birthday exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. Photo: PA Images via Getty Images.

The 1941 portrait of the British leader taken by Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh is now ready for the last step of its journey home to the Fairmont Château Laurier, the hotel in Ottawa where it ...

In 1929, Yousuf Karsh, one of the most noted portrait photographers of the 20th century, began his career in Boston. After many years in Canada, he later returned, spending the final five years of ...

Both Karsh and Winston had stayed at the hotel. Ottawa's CTV television reported Karsh and his wife lived in the hotel for two decades and even operated his studio in the hotel from 1972 to 1992 ...

An iconic photograph of Winston Churchill taken by Yousuf Karsh was stolen and replaced with a fake copy at Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Canada. Photo used with special permission ...

OTTAWA — It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy ...

U.S. President George W. Bush, left, stops by a portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill by Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh during a tour of the National Archives ...

Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian photographer who was born in 1908. His work is currently being shown at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Fine Arts, ...

Isabelle Mondou (left), Canadian Cultural Heritage deputy minister, and Andrea Clark-Grignon, head of Public Affairs, unveiled Yousuf Karsh’s 1941 portrait of Britain’s Prime Minister Winston ...