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Bernard Evans Ward
Born in
Some works of Bernard Evans Ward
Retrieved on 6 Mar 2018
', Lightner Museum,
An account from a member of the family
URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
Bernard Evans Ward RBSA
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a re ...
RSA RA RBA (1857Wood. – August 3, 1933New York Times, August 5, 1933.American Art Directory, 1933.) was a British painter who emigrated to the United States
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.
Life and creative work
Born in London
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, Ward was a renowned painter of the Victorian era
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who won a gold medal for some of his works exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1882 while still a student at the Royal Academy he won two silver medals. Then Bernard E. Ward founded, together with A. A. Calderon (1847-1911), London´s St John's Wood Art School
The St John's Wood Art School ( The Wood or Calderon's Art School) was an art school in St John's Wood, north London, England.
The Art School was established in 1878 and was located on Elm Tree Road. It was founded by two art teachers, Elíseo Ab ...
.
After a lawsuit had cost him his fortune,Family account. he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in 1913 near Cleveland, Ohio
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, where his daughter was a reporter for a London newspaper, possibly the ''Illustrated London News
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''. Ward quickly made himself a name as a portraitist in his new hometown. In the early 1920s, the family lived for some time in Florida
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,Family account, corroborated by Torchia. before returning to Akron, Ohio
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, where Bernard Evans Ward died at the age of 76 in his granddaughter's house.
His works were exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery
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History of the Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery's collection ...
, Liverpool, at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a ...
, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy of Arts
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and the Royal Society of British Artists.
Selected works
* ''London Flower Girls, Piccadilly Circus'', 1895, oil on canvas * ''Mother and Child'', oil on canvas * ''Richmond Castle, Yorkshire'', watercolor * ''Escena rural'', 1902Retrieved on 6 Mar 2018
References
Sources
*R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts: ''American Art Directory'', 1933. * *Torchia, R. W.:', Lightner Museum,
Saint Augustine, Florida
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; October 2001. . URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
*Wood, Christopher ''et al.'' (eds.): ''Dictionary of Victorian painters'' (Dictionary of British Artists, vol IV), Woodbridge, 1991.An account from a member of the family
URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
Further reading
*Falk, ''Who's Who in American Art'', 1985. *Johnson, ''Works exhibited at the Royal Society of British artists 1824-93 and at the New English Art Club 1888-1917,'' Woodbridge 1975. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Bernard Evans 1857 births 1933 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters British emigrants to the United States 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists 19th-century American male artists 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists