At Câmara de Lobos, the viewpoint where Winston Churchill took on painting has his name on it. It all began with a 20 vacation days, January 1950…
Winston Churchill was far from Westminster and clearly away from power. Celebrating the reopening after World War II, the Reid’s Palace Hotel of Madeira invited Mr. Churchill for some great vacation time, on January 1950. He said yes.
As in a marketing campaign, Churchill arrived with his wife, Lady Clementine, his entourage and bodyguards. Immediately he fell in love with Câmara de Lobos, found a perfect belvedere of his own and painted compulsively with the insisting wish of not to be recognized. That didn’t work. He later declared: ‘many times have I been greeted by people who owed me something. Never before, as in Madeira, have I been so enthusiastically welcomed by people that owe me nothing whatsoever’
