Bernard Evans Ward Explained

Bernard Evans Ward
Birth Date:	1857
Death Date:	1933
Occupation:	Painter
Known For:	Figure and portrait painting
Signature Alt:	Bernard E. Ward

Bernard Evans Ward RBSA RSA RA RBA (1857^[1]  - August 3, 1933^{[2] [3]}) was a British painter who emigrated to the United States.^[4]

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.^[3] 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,^[5] he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in 1913 near Cleveland, Ohio,^[2] 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.^[2] In the early 1920s, the family lived for some time in Florida,^[6] before returning to Akron, Ohio, where Bernard Evans Ward died at the age of 76 in his granddaughter's house.^[2]

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.^[7]

Selected works

• London Flower Girls, Piccadilly Circus, 1895, oil on canvas
• Mother and Child, oil on canvas
• Richmond Castle, Yorkshire, watercolor ^[8]
• Escena rural, 1902 ^[9]

Sources

• R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts: American Art Directory, 1933.
• News: . Death notice . August 5, 1933 . September 10, 2008.
• 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.
• An account from a member of the family. 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.

Notes and References

1. Wood.
2. New York Times, August 5, 1933.
3. American Art Directory, 1933.
4. https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/ward-bernard-evans Bernard Evans Ward's honours
5. Family account.
6. Family account, corroborated by Torchia.
7. https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/ward-bernard-evans/ WARD Bernard Evans 1857-1933
8. https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Bernard-Evans-Ward/5F34D4BFFCBA2797/ Bernard Evans Ward
9. http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/ward_bernard_evans/artist/210888/ Some works of Bernard Evans Ward