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James Ward

Photo credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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Painter and printmaker; Ward began his career as an engraver but aspired to the higher status of being a painter. Among a range of influences those of the rustic genre painter, George Morland, and of Peter Paul Rubens dominated his art. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Ward became the most sought after painter of animals of his day, painting mainly horses but also other animals as well as landscapes and genre scenes. His masterpiece is the monumental Gordale Scar (Tate Britain). Ward continued to be an exceptionally prolific artist throughout his long career but, in spite of this, his later years were plagued by financial difficulties.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

James Ward

Date

1848

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61.6 x W 52.7 cm

Accession number

309

Acquisition method

Given by G. R. Ward, 1870

Work type

Painting

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