File:William Newzam Prior Nicholson - Canadian Headquarters Staff.jpg
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Summary
William Nicholson: Canadian Headquarters Staff
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Title |
Canadian Headquarters Staff label QS:Len,"Canadian Headquarters Staff" |
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painting ![]() |
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Genre |
group portrait ![]() |
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Description |
English: This painting by British artist Sir William Nicholson depicts five Canadian generals and one major of the First World War standing unposed in front of a mural of the bombed Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall. This unfinished painting originally commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook was quickly forgotten, only to be rediscovered in the vaults of the Canadian War Museum and later hailed as Nicholson's finest work. Nicholson captured the officers in the moments before they sat for an official portrait. Unconventional for the officers' less than heroic stance, it has been argued that Nicholson may have viewed his subjects with a measure of cynicism, possibly influenced by the death of his own son in the First World War. A group portrait of Generals Richard Turner, Alexander McRae, Harold McDonald, Gilbert Foster and Percival Thacker and Major Furry Montague. In style and mood, the composition owes much to the portraits of Malcolm Arbuthnot, who had photographed William Nicholson's children in uniform a year earlier, in poses similar to those of the generals. Depicted people: Richard Ernest William Turner, Alexander Duncan McRae, Harold French McDonald, Gilbert Lafayette Foster, Percival Edward Thacker and Furry Ferguson |
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Date |
1918 ![]() |
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Medium |
oil on canvas ![]() |
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Dimensions |
height: 243.1 cm (95.7 in) ![]() ![]() dimensions QS:P2048,+243.1U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+289.2U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1032442 |
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Accession number |
19710261-0537 (Canadian War Museum) ![]() |
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https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1017205 ![]() |
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Source/Photographer | http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/photos/2800/19710261-0537.jpg |
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