Art from Harrow School at Christie's Art Sales

The Sunday Telegraph London | January 8, 2006| | Copyright

'When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable proportion of my first million years painting,' said Winston Churchill, who went to Harrow, in 1888, a school more usually associated with producing guards officers than dedicated painters. Of course, Churchill managed be both a soldier and an artist. But, in fact, a list of the past century's Old Harrovians turns out to include, if not a complete Who's Who of British artists and photographers, at least a sizeable sample. Victor Pasmore went there in 1918, Spencer Gore in 1892. Patrick Lichfield (1952) and Cecil Beaton (1918) followed the ...

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