After a worldwide hunt, the Ottawa Police Service has found the stolen Churchill photograph. The photograph was taken from the walls of the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa two years ago, and will be returned later this month. We are thrilled that the portrait will go back to its Canadian home.

Yousuf Karsh ran his studio at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa from 1972 to 1992, and he and Estrellita Karsh lived there for 18 years. When they left in 1998, the Karshes gave the hotel several fine art prints. Most are in their Karsh Suite; the others in a reading room. In 2022 it came to light that the print of Winston Churchill had been replaced with a copy. After a flurry of press, and with the hotel appealing for photographs by guests that show the Churchill print, the theft was narrowed down to between December 25, 2021, and January 6, 2022.