His other portraits include Sara Delano Roosevelt, U.S. president Herbert Hoover, and U.S. financier and statesman Bernard Baruch.
[1] He was baptised on 19 October in Emmanuel Church, South Croydon, where at the time his family lived at Normanton Road.
[5][6] 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.
[12] Standing from left to right were William Massey (New Zealand), Jai Singh Prabhakar (Alwar), Tej Bahadur Sapru (India), W. T. Cosgrave (Ireland), W. R. Warren (Newfoundland), and General Smuts (South Africa).
[9] According to Chandor, the Queen was an ideal model "standing for me as long as I wished with soldierly self-discipline and sitting as well as a sphinx when I worked on the face".
[18] It took eight hour-long sittings in Buckingham Palace's drawing room, during which Chandor was accompanied by his wife, and the two of them kept the Queen amused with jokes and poems.
[18] Chandor told Life magazine that "the queen is an infinitely more beautiful woman than any photograph has ever shown, and when she smiles there is a radiance such as I have seldom seen in any face.
[19] Eleanor Roosevelt saw the painting at the Wildenstein Galleries before it went on to hang in the British embassy in Washington, D.C., and thought it "one of his real masterpieces".
[20] About 200 paintings by Chandor have been recorded, including Sara Delano Roosevelt, U.S. president Herbert Hoover,[7] and U.S. financier and statesman Bernard Baruch.
[5] In 1966, The Illustrated London News pointed out that the painting to the left of the fireplace in the drawing room at Chartwell was a Chandor portrait of Lady Churchill.
[3] In 1936, they built a house on cow pasture land owned by her family in Weatherford, and established a 3.5-acre (1.4-hectare) garden, White Shadows.