Amazing vintage matte-finish 9 x 11 three-quarter-length portrait of the seated Churchill taken in 1920 by Edward Russell of Russell & Sons, affixed to its original 13 x 16.75 studio mount, signed on the mount in ink, "Winston S. Churchill, 1921." Framed and in very good to fine condition, with silvering to the perimeter of the image, creasing to the left border of the mount, and the signature a couple of shades light. In February 1921, Churchill was appointed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George as Secretary of State for the Colonies, during which time he was a signatory to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that established the Irish Free State.
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