Daisy Linda Ward, née Travers (1883–1937) was a still life painter from New Jersey, best known for her collection of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings that was bequeathed by her husband in her name to the

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. Ward was born in New Jersey and married the British businessman Theodore William Holzapfel, who had taken his mother's maiden name of Ward to avoid anti-German sentiment during World War One. The couple collected Dutch and Flemish 17th-century paintings. She became a still life painter and took her inspiration from works in her collection and elsewhere. She showed her work at the

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summer exhibition for the first time in 1925. Two of her paintings were included in the Ashmolean bequest that comprises 96 paintings.Daisy Linda Ward
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website File:Daisy Linda Ward - Still LIfe with a Lemon and a Porcelain Pitcher ASH ASHM WA1940 2 95.jpg, Partial copy by Daisy Linda Ward of a work by Willem Kalf File:Willem-kalf-stilleben-mit-porzellankanne.jpg, Original work, formerly in the collection of Josef Block, looted in WWII and recently restituted to his heir

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* The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward ... By Fred G. Meijer
Background of the Daisy Linda Ward bequest
1883 births 1937 deaths People from New Jersey American women painters {{US-painter-stub