File:John Travers Cornwell, Boy 1st class (1900-16) RMG BHC2635.tiff
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editAmbrose McEvoy: John Travers Cornwell, Boy 1st class (1900-16)
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q1846089 |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre |
portrait ![]() |
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Description |
English: John Travers Cornwell, Boy 1st class (1900-16) This painting was part of an intended series of portraits of Victoria Cross holders commissioned from McEvoy, a fashionable society portrait painter who was also a war artist. He worked from photographs but found the task daunting and it was never completed. Cornwell was a 16-year-old gun sight-setter on HMS ‘Chester’. When the ship went into action at the Battle of Jutland (31 May 1916) all his gun crew were killed or wounded but Cornwell remained at his post despite fatal injuries. His portrait became the icon for this complex and ambiguous battle which, on balance, the British won but of which Churchill remarked that Admiral Jellicoe could also ‘have lost the war in an afternoon’. Cornwell was a perfect example to small boys on how to serve their country, and to those adults who had failed to recognize the importance of duty and self sacrifice at a time of mass unionization, strikes and suffragette protest. According to the Daily Mirror on 22 September 1916 ‘Celebrations were held yesterday in the elementary schools throughout the kingdom in honour of Jack Cornwell, VC.’ The article was accompanied by a photograph of pupils at Walton Road School, Ilford, saluting a portrait of the boy hero who had been a pupil there, while his mother and sister look on. |
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Depicted people |
Jack Cornwell ![]() |
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Date |
circa 1918 date QS:P571,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas ![]() |
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Dimensions | Painting: 508 mm x 406 mm; Frame: 660 mm x 555 mm x 71 mm; Overall: 5.4 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC2635 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Identifier InfoField | id number: BHC2635 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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