1. Douglas Granville Chandor was a British-born American painter of portraits, of which he created more than 200.
13 Facts About Douglas Chandor
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Douglas Chandor later painted Winston Churchill and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and did a sketch of the "Big Three at Yalta", although the painting never happened.
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Douglas Chandor designed Chandor Gardens in Weatherford, Texas, which are a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
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Douglas Chandor was born in Warlingham, Surrey, England, on 20 August 1897.
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Douglas Chandor was educated at Radley College from 1910 to 1914, and after leaving immediately enlisted in the British Army's 1st Life Guards, before later transferring to the Lovat Scouts.
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Douglas Chandor was discharged after contracting typhoid and suffering severe knee damage.
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Douglas Chandor trained at London's Slade School of Fine Art, specialising in portraiture.
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Douglas Chandor did a sketch of the "Big Three at Yalta", and although he painted Churchill and Roosevelt, he never painted Joseph Stalin, so the painting never happened.
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Douglas Chandor travelled to London specifically to paint her and was reported to have said that "she could not have made a better subject".
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About 200 paintings by Douglas Chandor have been recorded, including Sara Delano Roosevelt, US president Herbert Hoover, and US financier and statesman Bernard Baruch.
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The house was designed by the architect Joseph Pelich, mostly as a studio, as Douglas Chandor spent half the year there and half at his studio in New York City.
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Douglas Chandor developed pneumonia in October 1952 while painting the Queen, and was treated by her physician Sir Daniel Davies.
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Douglas and Ina Chandor are buried in Weatherford's Old City Greenwood Cemetery.