Henrietta Ward
Henrietta Mary Ada Ward (born June 11, 1832 in London , † July 12, 1924 in Slough ) was an English painter .
Live and act
Henrietta Ward was born in 1832 into a renowned family of artists. Her grandfather was the animal painter James Ward , and her parents were also artistic. Surrounded by artists from an early age, she began to study painting at Bloomsbury Art School and at the drawing school founded by Henry Sass .
In 1848, at the age of 16, she ran away from home and married the history painter Edward Matthew Ward, 16 years her senior . The couple had eight children over the years, including a. Leslie Ward , who became known as a caricaturist and painter under the pseudonym Spy . During these years Henrietta Ward began her own very successful career as a painter of genre pieces in which her children figured. However, she attracted the greatest attention through her history paintings, which she exhibited at the Royal Academy , such as B. Queen Mary Quitting Stirling Castle (1863), Palissey the Potter (1866) or The Childhood of Joan of Arc (1867). She also worked for the opportunity for women to study at the Royal Academy and she supported the suffragette movement .
When her husband died in 1879, Henrietta Ward founded her own art school aimed at women. Among the tutors were such prominent family friends as Lawrence Alma-Tadema , William Frith, and John Everett Millais .
Henrietta Ward also wrote two autobiographies, Mrs. EM Ward's Reminiscences 1911 and Memories of Ninety Years , 1924, the year she died.
literature
- Lionel Lambourne, Victorian Painting , London 1999.
- Short biography, Slough History
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| SURNAME | Ward, Henrietta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ward, Henrietta Mary Ada (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1924 |
| Place of death | Slough |