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A Canadian man who stole an iconic portrait of a scowling Winston Churchill has been sentenced to two years in jail, according to local media.
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II standing against the dramatic Highlands landscape of Balmoral is among almost 100 rarely seen photographs, negatives, and archival materials from the last 100 years ...
The "Roaring Lion" portrait of the late British prime minister had been gifted to the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa by the late Armenian-born Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh. Taken by ...
In what the judge likened to a crime against history, culture and national pride, the thief who stole the original Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier hotel has ...
The "Roaring Lion" portrait of the late British prime minister had been gifted to the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa by the late Armenian-born Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.
The "Roaring Lion" portrait of the late British prime minister had been gifted to the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa by the late Armenian-born Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.
He was then placed in handcuffs and taken into custody. The celebrated photographer Yousuf Karsh, a longtime resident of the Château Laurier, gave the portrait to the hotel in 1998.
Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh snapped the celebrated portrait in 1941 in the Speaker’s office just after Churchill delivered a rousing wartime address to Canadian members of Parliament. Karsh ...