Edward Matthew Ward
(1816-1879), History painterSitter in 16 portraits
Artist associated with 10 portraits
Edward Matthew Ward was a painter. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1835 and the following year he went abroad for further study, visiting Paris and Venice on the way to Rome, where he spent three years. Ward's first work of any consequence was Cimabue and Giotto, which he sent back to the Royal Academy show of 1839. In 1852 he was commissioned to produce eight pictures for the Palace of Westminster, on subjects drawn from the English civil wars, the most admired of which is the Last Sleep of Argyll (1860s) in the Commons Corridor of the Houses of Parliament.
by Edward Matthew Ward
pen and ink
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by Edward Matthew Ward
pencil and wash, 1835
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by Edward Matthew Ward
oil on panel, 1846
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
by Edward Matthew Ward
oil on canvas, 1853
On display in Room 21 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Edward Matthew Ward
pencil, 1862
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by Edward Matthew Ward
pencil, 1847
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by Edward Matthew Ward
pencil, 1853
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Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll ('The Last Sleep of Argyll')
by Goupil & Co, after Edward Matthew Ward
photogravure, (1854)
NPG D7110
Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia
by Émile Desmaisons, after Edward Matthew Ward
lithograph, published 1857
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'Dr Johnson awaiting an audience of Lord Chesterfield' (Samuel Johnson and 14 unknown figures)
by Lumb Stocks, published by Art Union of London, after Edward Matthew Ward
engraving, published 1876
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