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WILLIAM WARD (1766-1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM WARD (1766-1826)  ,
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English
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mezzotint-engraver, an elder
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brother of James Ward (q.v.), was born in
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London in 1766 . He was the most distinguished pupil of J . Raphael Smith, and executed a
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great
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part of many of the plates which bear the name of that excellent engraver . In 1795 he began to exhibit in the Royal Academy, of which in 1814 he was elected an associate engraver . He also held the appointment of mezzotint-engraver to the prince regent and the duke of York . He executed six plates after Reynolds, engraved many of the
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works of his brother-in-law, George Morland, and his mezzotints after Andrew Geddes, which include the full-lengths of
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Sir David Wilkie and of Patrick Brydone, are of great merit . His engravings are full of
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artistic spirit, and show
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fine feeling for colour; and they are excellently
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tender and expressive in their rendering of flesh . He died in London on the 1st of December 1826 .

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