Bernard Evans Ward

"Huldra's Nymphs" (1909) by Bernard Evans Ward

Bernard Evans Ward (1857[1] August 3, 1933[2][3]) was a British painter who emigrated to the United States.

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] After a lawsuit had cost him his fortune,[4] 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,[5] before returning to Akron, Ohio, where Bernard Evans Ward died at the age of 76 in his granddaughter's house.[2]

References

  1. Wood.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 New York Times, August 5, 1933.
  3. 3.0 3.1 American Art Directory, 1933.
  4. Family account.
  5. Family account, corroborated by Torchia.

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