Karsh took iconic portraits of Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill. All of those portraits are part of the BPL donation.

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.

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.

He noticed the frame of the print did not match the others, the Smithsonian reported, so the hotel called photographer Yousuf Karsh 's manager.

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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.

After two years, Yousuf Karsh's stolen Winston Churchill portrait will return to its home at the hotel where Karsh was once based.

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 ...

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.

Fairmont Chateau Laurier General Manager Genevieve Dumas looks on as Ottawa Police Services Detective Akiva Gellar speaks about the stolen Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill, during a news ...