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目录 政坛枭雄 财富精英 科学巨人 体坛名将 艺术名人 荧屏魅影 strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. ” At that time, John Lavery —a Churchill neighbor and celebrated painter —was tutoring Churchill in his art. Later, Lavery said of his unusual pupil: “Had he chosen painting instead of statesmanship, I believe he would have been a great master with the brush. ” In painting, Churchill had discovered a companion with whom he was to walk for the greater part of the years that remained to him. After the war, painting would offer deep solace when, in 1921, the death of the mother was followed two months later by the loss of his and Clementin e’s beloved three year old daughter, Marigold. Battered by grief, Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland, finding comfort in his painting. He wrote to Clementine: “I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with crimson and golden hills in the background. Alas I keep feeling the hurt of the Duckadilly (Marigold’pet name). ” Historians have called the decade after 1929, when the Conservative government fell and Winston was out of office, his wilderness years. Po......