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EDWARD MATTHEW WARD (1816-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:MATTHEW See also:WARD (1816-1879)  , See also:English See also:historical and genre painter, was See also:born at Pimlico, See also:London, in 1816 . Among his See also:early boyish efforts in See also:art was a See also:series of See also:clever illustrations to the Rejected Addresses of his uncles See also:Horace and See also:James See also:Smith, which was followed soon afterwards by designs to some of the papers of See also:Washington See also:Irving . In 183o he gained the See also:silver See also:palette of the Society of Arts; and in 1835, aided by See also:Wilkie and See also:Chantrey, he entered the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy, having in the previous See also:year contributed to its See also:exhibition his portrait of Mr O . Smith, the comedian, in his See also:character of See also:Don Quixote . In 1836 he went to See also:Rome, where in 1838 he gained asilver See also:medal from the Academy of St See also:Luke for his " See also:Cimabue and See also:Giotto," which in the following year was exhibited at the Royal Academy..The See also:young artist now turned his thoughts to See also:fresco-See also:painting, which he studied under See also:Cornelius at See also:Munich . In 1843 he forwarded his " See also:Boadicea Animating the Britons previous to the Last See also:Battle against the See also:Romans " to the competition for the decoration of the Houses of See also:Parliament—a See also:work upon which he was afterwards engaged, having in 1853 been directed by the See also:fine art commissioners to execute eight subjects in the See also:corridor of the See also:House of See also:Commons . The success of his " Dr See also:Johnson in See also:Lord See also:Chesterfield's Ante-See also:Room "—now in the See also:National See also:Gallery, along with the " Disgrace of Lord See also:Clarendon " (the smaller picture) (1846), the " See also:South See also:Sea Bubble " (1847), and " James II . Receiving the See also:News of the Landing of the See also:Prince of See also:Orange " (1850)—secured his See also:election as an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1847, and in 1855 he gained full See also:academic honours . Among the more important of his other See also:works may be named " See also:Charlotte See also:Corday Led to See also:Execution " (1852), the " Last See also:Sleep of See also:Argyll " (1854), the " See also:Emperor of the See also:French Receiving the See also:Order of the Garter " (1859), painted for the See also:queen, the " Ante-Chamber at See also:Whitehall during the Dying Moments of See also:Charles II." (1861), " Dr Johnson's First Interview with See also:John Wilkes " (1865), and the " Royal See also:Family of See also:France in the See also:Temple," painted in 1851, and usually considered the artist's masterpiece . He died at See also:Windsor, on the 15th of See also:January 1879 . In 1848 he had married Henrietta See also:Ward (b . 1832), who, herself an admirable artist, was a granddaughter of James Ward, R.A .

(1769-1859), the distinguished See also:

animal painter . Their son, See also:Leslie Ward (b . 1851), became well known as " See also:Spy " of Vanity See also:Fair (from 1873 to 1909), and later of the See also:World, with his character portraits of contemporary celebrities .

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