Though El Glaoui was never able to meet and thank Churchill, the exhibition at Leighton House Museum -- which was first proposed by the artist's daughter -- is a belated meeting between the twopainters.
The reference book, featuring artwork by the top botanical illustrators and painters of the time, remains a valued reference even more than two centuries later.
The two most prominent Western artists, Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell, were late-19th-century narrative painters whose romanticized pictures of cowboys and Indians were avidly reproduced in leading magazines.
As the project proceeds, a team of expert painters and conservationists will remove each of these panels and repaint areas that are starting to fade after almost two centuries.