Matteucci, Renzo Italian (b.1930) 'ANCESTOR PORTRAIT' oil on canvas signed & dated: lower right, 1963 H35in W27.5in *Note: Glider pilot and director of the Italian blood research institute, Matteucci has shown widely in New York, London, Italy. When he learned that Eugene Walter was born the same day as Winston Churchill he announced that he would paint an "ancestor portrait." This bulldog is it.