Bernard Evans Ward
Bernard Evans Ward (* 1857 in London , † August 3, 1933 in Akron , Ohio ) was a painter, art teacher and co-operator of a London art school, the St John's Wood Art School .
Bernard E. Ward was a well-known painter of the Victorian era . For his work he received the gold medal of the Royal Society of British Artists . In 1878, together with the Peruvian painter Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón (1847–1911) , he founded the St John's Wood Art School in London on "7, Elm Tree Road". After a lawsuit that cost him his fortune, he emigrated to the United States , where he lived near Cleveland , Ohio in 1913 . His daughter was a reporter and worked for a London newspaper, possibly The Illustrated London News . BE Ward quickly made a name for himself as a portraitist in his new hometown . He and his family lived in Florida for some time in the early 1920s and died at his granddaughter's house on his return to Akron.
literature
- RR Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts: American Art Directory , 1933.
- New York Times : Death notice , Aug 5, 1933.
- RW Torchia: Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950 ( October 9, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) , Lightner Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida; October 2001, ISBN 0-9713560-0-9 .
- Christopher Wood (ed.): Dictionary of Victorian painters (Dictionary of British Artists, vol IV), Woodbridge, 1991.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón
- ↑ Bridget Clarke: Elm Tree Road from 1870s to the end of WW1. July 14, 2013 [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ward, Bernard Evans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ward, Bernard E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter, art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1933 |
| Place of death | Akron , Ohio |