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John Ward (1798–1849)〔Harbron, Dudley. (''John Ward, Painter (1798–1849)'' ), ''Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs'', October 1941, p. 130.〕 was an English painter from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. He has been described as "the leading marine artist and ship portrait painter in Hull during the first half of the 19th century".〔("Oil painting may have been stolen from museum to order" ), ''Yorkshire Post'', 8 July 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2013.〕 ==Biography== John Ward was born on 28 December 1798, a son of a master mariner, Abraham Ward, also a painter and his wife Sarah (nee Clark). John received an education and was apprenticed as a house painter to Thomas Meggitt. By 1826, Ward was listed in the local Hull Directory as a "House and Ship Painter".〔 Ward married Esther Leonard (born 1800 in Solihull, Warwickshire) on 18th April 1825 in Holy Trinity Church, Hull. They had four daughters. He was initiated as a Freemason. He was influenced by the artist William Anderson.〔 copying some of them before establishing his own style. Ward exhibited several paintings in 1827 at the Hull and East Riding Institute for the Promotion of the Fine Arts. He subsequently produced small watercolour paintings and some larger oil paintings, of local maritime and shipping scenes.〔 He also exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1847 and at the British Institution between 1843 and 1847. He made many engravings of his own works. Ward died on 28th September 1849 from cholera. It was not until 1883 that his importance was recognized when the local press briefly described his life.〔 Many of his works are now in public collections, including the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Maritime Museum〔 and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. In 1981 an exhibition of his works was held at the Ferens Art Gallery to co-inside with the opening of the Humber Bridge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ward (painter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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