Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-william-orpen-1725" aria-label="More by Sir William Orpen" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir William Orpen</a>
Sir William McCormick
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1921
actions: postures and motions
adults
arts and entertainment
author
chair
collector / patron
furnishings
individuals: male
knight
legs crossed
literary
man
McCormick, William, Sir
named individuals
objects
official
people
portraits
public service
royalty and social rank
sitting
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
19 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
19 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
2019-11-19
Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village (Compton, UK)
http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk
2019-11-19
William Orpen: Method & Mastery
Loan-out
Sir William McCormick
support: 1270 × 1016 mm
frame: 1590 × 1345 × 135 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1921
<p><b>N03628</b> SIR WILLIAM McCORMICK 1920</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘August 1920 Orpen’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 50×40 (127×102).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1921.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1921 (14); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1933 (87); Manchester, April–May 1933 (55).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Konody and Dark, 1932, pp.82, 222 and 271, repr. pl.18.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1921, p.38; Pickle, 1923, pl.27.</p>
<p>Sir William McCormick (1859–1930) was a Scottish literary scholar, particularly of Chaucer, and administrator, being <i>inter alia</i> first secretary of the Carnegie Trust for the Scottish Universities, Chairman of the University Grants Committee, Chairman of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Chairman of the British National Opera Company. He came to live in London in 1920, the date of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>; Konody and Dark also list a copy under the same year (<i>op. cit.</i>, p.271).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment author chair collector / patron furnishings individuals: male knight legs crossed literary man McCormick, William, Sir named individuals objects official people portraits public service royalty and social rank sitting work and occupations