Richard Arthur Ledward (1857 – 28 October 1890), born in the
Staffordshire Potteries
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall, which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. North Staffordshire became a centre of ...
in England, was a sculptor and teacher of pottery modelling.
Life
Ledward was born in
Burslem
Burslem ( ) is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent form part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It is often referred to as the "mother town" of Stoke on Trent.
...
, Staffordshire, in 1857; he was a son of Richard Perry Ledward, of the firm Pinder, Bourne & Co. of Burslem. Ledward was employed as modeller by that firm, and studied in the
Burslem School of Art
Burslem School of Art was an art school in the centre of the town of Burslem in the Potteries district of England. Students from the school played an important role in the local pottery industry. Pottery was made on the site of the school from th ...
; on obtaining a national scholarship he continued his studies at the
South Kensington School of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It off ...
. There he obtained a gold medal for modelling from the life, and was appointed a master of modelling.
Subsequently he became modelling master at the
Westminster School of Art
The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London.
History
The Westminster School of Art was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Royal Architectural Museum.
H. M. Bateman described ...
and
Blackheath School of Art. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1882 and the following years. One work of his, "A Young Mother", attracted favourable notice. He made several well-regarded busts, including those of
Henry Broadhurst
:''See also Harry Broadhurst''
Henry Broadhurst (13 April 1840 – 11 October 1911) was a leading early British trade unionist and a Lib-Lab politician who sat in the House of Commons for various Midlands constituencies between 1880 and 190 ...
,
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...
, Sir
Philip Cunliffe-Owen
Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen (8 June 1828 – 23 March 1894) was an exhibition organizer and the Director of the South Kensington Museum in London.H. T. Wood (rev. R. C. Denis)Owen, Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe- (1828–1894) ''Oxford Dicti ...
, and others.
Ledward lived in
Chelsea
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, and died of rheumatism on 28 October 1890. He was buried at
Perivale Church, near Ealing.
Family
In 1883 he married Mary Jane Wood, sister of Ambrose Wood of Hanley. Their children included the sculptor
Gilbert Ledward
Gilbert Ledward (23 January 1888 – 21 June 1960), was an English sculptor.
He won the British Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist. He was professor of s ...
; Hilda, who married the sculptor
Newbury Abbot Trent; and Enid, who married the painter
Percy Hague Jowett.
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
References
Attribution
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1857 births
1890 deaths
People from Burslem
19th-century British sculptors