Josiah Butler Williams Portrait
- Title:
- Josiah Butler Williams Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Forbes, John Colin, 1846-1925
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1865-1925
- Location:
- Uris Library, Willard Austen Room, Cornell University
- Country:
- Canada
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0094
- Accession Number:
- W84-70.3
- File Name:
- artsdb_0094.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Williams, Josiah B. (Josiah Butler), 1810-1883
Cornell University. Board of Trustees - Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Josiah Butler Williams (1810-1883) Charter Trustee of Cornell University (1863-1883). Williams was born in Middletown Connecticut. Williams was a successful lumber merchant, banker and politician. Williams served as New York State Senator from 1852 to 1855 [Poole, Murray Edward, and Chester C. Platt. 1916. A story of Cornell University: with biographies of distinguished Cornellians. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cayuga Press]. Williams was uncle to Cornell benefactor and trustee Henry W. Sage, and father to Cornell Professor Emeritus Henry Shaler Williams. His son, Henry S. Williams is considered the intellectual father of Sigma Xi (founded at Cornell University) and served as president of the Alpha Chapter of Sigma Xi in 1887 ["Henry S. Williams 1887-1888," University Faculty, Cornell University website, accessed June 17, 2012, http://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/dean/williams.html].
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.]
Colman, Gould P. 1963. Education & agriculture: a history of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University. Accessed through eCommons@Cornell, http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10733] - Source:
- Poole, Murray Edward, and Chester C. Platt. 1916. A story of Cornell University: with biographies of distinguished Cornellians. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cayuga Press
"Henry S. Williams 1887-1888," University Faculty, Cornell University website, accessed June 17, 2012, http://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/dean/williams.html
MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ.]
Colman, Gould P. 1963. Education & agriculture: a history of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University. Accessed through eCommons@Cornell, http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10733 - 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.