FDA-P.200-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.200-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
William Johnson (afterwards Cory)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
As boy at Eton, William Johnson (later Cory) won the Newcastle Scholarship. After King's College, Cambridge, he returned to teach and became known as ‘Tute’ (short for ‘tutor’) by his pupils. Cory was also a writer of Latin and English verse, best known for Ionica, a collection of poems published in the year this work was painted.
C. W. Furse, nephew of the sitter, was attracting attention as a portraitist when he died from a heart condition, aged 36. His death came a few days after the birth of his son and in the year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. This unusually melancholy work was included in his retrospective exhibition of 1906.
The sitter served as an Assistant Master at Eton College from 1845 to 1872.
'...Sir Ralph [Furse] presented to us [Eton College] the well-known portrait [of William Johnson (afterwards Cory)] by Charles Wellington Furse (WJC’s nephew), which was reproduced both in Mrs. Mackenzie’s book and in Lord Esher’s lonicus. This is to be hung, under Sir Geoffrey Agnew’s care, in the Austen Leigh Gallery, between School Hall and School Library.'
['The Halsdon Papers of William Johnson (Afterwards Cory)', Etoniana, No.128, 1973, p.478]
C. W. Furse, nephew of the sitter, was attracting attention as a portraitist when he died from a heart condition, aged 36. His death came a few days after the birth of his son and in the year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. This unusually melancholy work was included in his retrospective exhibition of 1906.
The sitter served as an Assistant Master at Eton College from 1845 to 1872.
'...Sir Ralph [Furse] presented to us [Eton College] the well-known portrait [of William Johnson (afterwards Cory)] by Charles Wellington Furse (WJC’s nephew), which was reproduced both in Mrs. Mackenzie’s book and in Lord Esher’s lonicus. This is to be hung, under Sir Geoffrey Agnew’s care, in the Austen Leigh Gallery, between School Hall and School Library.'
['The Halsdon Papers of William Johnson (Afterwards Cory)', Etoniana, No.128, 1973, p.478]
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length in a black coat, in profile
Dimensions
height (sight size): 753mm
width (sight size): 625mm
height (frame): 1060mm
width (frame): 925mm
width (sight size): 625mm
height (frame): 1060mm
width (frame): 925mm
Dimension note
(75x63cm)
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Historic carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
1891
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by Sir Ralph Furse in 1973
[see Eton College Archives: COLL/P/15/86/35]
Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
[see Eton College Archives: COLL/P/15/86/35]
Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
