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. New York Times, August 5, 1933.
3. American Art Directory, 1933.
4. Family account.
5. Family account, corroborated by Torchia.

Sources

• R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts: American Art Directory, 1933.
• New York Times: Death notice, August 5, 1933. URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
• Torchia, R. W.: Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950, Lightner Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida; October 2001. ISBN 0-9713560-0-9. URL last accessed September 10, 2008.
• Wood, Christopher et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Victorian painters (Dictionary of British Artists, vol IV), Woodbridge, 1991.
• An account from a member of the family. URL last accessed September 10, 2008.

Further reading

• Falk, Who's Who in American Art, 1985.
• Johnson, Works exhibited at the Royal Society of British artists 1824-93 and at the New English Art Club 1888-1917, Woodbridge 1975.