William Henry Miller Portrait
- Title:
- William Henry Miller Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Forbes, John Colin, 1846-1925
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- 1893
- Acquisition Date:
- 1893
- Location:
- Uris Library, lower lobby, Cornell University
- Country:
- Canada
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0135
- Accession Number:
- W84-46.1
- File Name:
- artsdb_0135.jpg
- Culture:
- Canadian
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Miller, William Henry, 1848-1922
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- William Henry Miller (1848-1922), original architect of the University Library, now Uris Library. Miller was Cornell University's first architecture student. His innovative design allowed for convenient access to materials, and was, in Cornell University co-founder and first President Andrew D. White’s words, “a marvel of good planning, in which fitness is wedded to beauty.” Andrew D. White considered it to be “the best academic library built.” In addition to the library, which is considered Miller's masterpiece, he designed four other major buildings on the Cornell Campus—Barnes Hall, Stimson Hall, Boardman Hall, and Risley Hall—as well as two fraternities, the A. D. White House, the Central Avenue Bridge, and Eddy Gate [Heidig, Lance, J., “Building History,” Uris Historical Tour, Cornell University Library website, last modified June 10, 2011, http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/history/uris].
John Colin Forbes is an American painter from Toronto, Canada. Forbes studied at Upper Canada College, the South Kensington Museum, the Royal Academy, London, and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He was a student of T. Mover Martin. Notable portrait subjects of Forbes include: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Kind Edward VII, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, and Governor General of Canada Frederick Hamilton-Temple Blackwood. Forbes is considered one of Canada’s best portrait painters [MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ.]. - Source:
- “John Colin Forbes,” Odon Wagner Gallery, accessed April 24, 2012, http://www.odonwagnergallery.com/traditional_artist/john-colin-forbes.
MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ.
Heidig, Lance, J., “Building History,” Uris Historical Tour, Cornell University Library website, last modified June 10, 2011, http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/history/uris - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.