Bernard Evans Ward RBSA RSA RA RBA (1857Wood. – August 3, 1933New York Times, August 5, 1933.American Art Directory, 1933.) was a British painter who emigrated to the United States.Bernard Evans Ward's honours
Life and creative work Born in London, Ward was a renowned painter of the Victorian era who won a gold medal for some of his works exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1882 while still a student at the Royal Academy he won two silver medals. Then Bernard E. Ward founded, together with A. A. Calderon (1847–1911), London's St John's Wood Art School. After a lawsuit had cost him his fortune,Family account. he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in 1913 near Cleveland, Ohio, where his daughter was a reporter for a London newspaper, possibly the Illustrated London News. Ward quickly made himself a name as a portraitist in his new hometown. In the early 1920s, the family lived for some time in Florida,Family account, corroborated by Torchia. before returning to Akron, Ohio, where Bernard Evans Ward died at the age of 76 in his granddaughter's house.
His works were exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of British Artists.WARD Bernard Evans 1857-1933 Retrieved on 6 Mar 2018
Selected works London Flower Girls, Piccadilly Circus, 1895, oil on canvas Mother and Child, oil on canvas Richmond Castle, Yorkshire, watercolor Bernard Evans Ward Retrieved on 6 Mar 2018 Escena rural, 1902 Some works of Bernard Evans Ward Retrieved on 6 Mar 2018
References
Sources
R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts: American Art Directory, 1933.
Torchia, R. W.: Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950, Lightner Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida; October 2001. . URL last accessed September 10, 2008. Wood, Christopher et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Victorian painters (Dictionary of British Artists, vol IV), Woodbridge, 1991. . URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
Further reading Falk, Who's Who in American Art, 1985. Johnson, Works exhibited at the Royal Society of British artists 1824-93 and at the New English Art Club 1888-1917, Woodbridge 1975.