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JAMES WARD (1769--1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:WARD (1769--1859)  , See also:English See also:animal painter and engraver, was See also:born in See also:Thames See also:Street, See also:London, on the 23rd of See also:October 1769 . At the See also:age of twelve he was See also:bound apprentice with J . See also:Raphael See also:Smith, but he received little See also:attention and learnt nothing from this engraver . He was afterwards instructed for over seven years by his See also:elder See also:brother, See also:William See also:Ward, and he engraved many admirable plates, among which his " Mrs See also:Billington," after See also:Reynolds, occupies a very high See also:place . He presented a See also:complete set of his engravings, in their various states, numbering three See also:hundred impressions, to the See also:British Museum . While still a youth he made the acquaintance of See also:George See also:Morland, who afterwards married his See also:sister; and the example of this artist's See also:works induced him to See also:attempt See also:painting . His See also:early productions were rustic subjects in the manner of Morland, which were frequently sold as the See also:work of the more celebrated painter . His " See also:Bull-Bait," an animated See also:composition, introducing many figures, attracted much attention in the Royal See also:Academy of 1797 . A See also:commission from See also:Sir See also:John See also:Sinclair, See also:president of the new agricultural society, to paint an See also:Alderney cow, led to much similar work, and turned Ward's attention to animal-painting, a See also:department in which he achieved his highest See also:artistic successes . His " Landscape with See also:Cattle," acquired for the See also:National See also:Gallery at a cost of (1500, was painted in 182o–1822 at the See also:suggestion of See also:West, in emulation of the " Bull of See also:Paul See also:Potter " at the See also:Hague . His " See also:Boa See also:Serpent Seizing a See also:Horse " was executed in 1822, and his admirable " See also:Grey Horse," shown in the Old Masters' See also:Exhibition of 1879, See also:dates from 1828 . Ward also produced portraits, and many landscapes like the " Gordale Scar " and the " See also:Harlech See also:Castle " in the National Gallery .

Sometimes he turned aside into the less fruitful paths of See also:

allegory, as in his unsuccessful " See also:Pool of See also:Bethesda " (1818), and " See also:Triumph of the See also:Duke of See also:Wellington " (1818) . He was a frequent contributor to the Royal Academy and the British Institution, and in 184.1 he collected one hundred and See also:forty examples of his See also:art, and exhibited them in his See also:house in See also:Newman Street . He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1807, and a full member in 1811, and died at See also:Cheshunt on the 23rd of See also:November 1859 . Ward compiled an autobiography, of which an abstract was published in the Art See also:Journal in ;849 .

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