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shield, preceded by Plague and Famine and dragged on by Alecto bearing a torch, rushes from the open temple of Janus, trampling down the Arts and Sciences in his progress; Venus, Cybele, and Cupids in vain attempt to restrain his warlike ardour. Carried to Paris; returned in 1815. Engraved by Avril; Paradisi.—Smith, ii. 150; Landon, Musée, iv. Pl. 9; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iv. Pl. 88.
Horrors of War, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
WARD, EDGAR M., born in Urbana,
Ohio; contemporary. Figure and genre
painter, younger brother of J. Q. A. Ward,
sculptor; pupil of the National Academy,
New York, of the École des Beaux Arts and
of Cabanel, Paris. First exhibited in National
Academy in 1871, and in the Paris
Salon in 1876. Elected an A.N.A. in 1876;
N.A. in 1883. Studio in New York. Works:
Brittany Washerwomen (1876); The Sabot
Maker, Venetian Water Carriers, Washing
in Brittany (1878); Street Scene—Tréport
(1879); Normandy Cooper (1880); Tobacco
Field—Old Virginny (1881); Feeling the
Edge (1882); Collar Shop (1883), T. B.
Clarke, New York; Street in Tréport—Normandy
(1884); The Cobblers, Resting,
The Blessing (1886).
WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW, born in
London in 1816, died there, Jan. 15, 1879.
History painter, pupil of Royal Academy in
1835; then worked nearly three years in
Rome, and after studying fresco painting
under Cornelius at Munich returned to England
and exhibited
his Cimabue and
Giotto. His Dr.
Johnson reading
the MS. of the Vicar
of Wakefield
(1843) first brought
him into notice;
elected an A.R.A.
in 1846, and R.A.
in 1855. In 1852
and later, he executed eight historic pictures,
six in fresco and two in water-glass,
in the corridor of the House of Commons.
In the National Gallery are: Dr. Johnson
in the Anteroom of Lord Chesterfield (1845),
Disgrace of Lord Clarendon (1846), South
Sea Bubble (1847), James II. receiving News
of Landing of Prince of Orange (1850).
Other works: Charlotte Corday led to Execution
(1852); Execution
of Montrose (1853); Last
Sleep of Argyll (1854); Marie
Antoinette parting with
the Dauphin (1856); Napoleon
III. receiving Order
of the Garter (1859); Night
of Rizzio's Murder (1865);
Earl of Leicester and Amy
Robsart (1866); Landing of
Charles II. at Dover (1873);
William III. and Mary receiving
the Lords and Commons
at Whitehall (1874);
Last Interview between Napoleon
I. and Queen Louisa
of Prussia at Tilsit (1877).—Cat. Nat. Gal.;
Jas. Dafforne, Life, etc. (London, 1879);
Sandby, ii. 299.
WARD, HENRIETTA, born in London
in 1832. Genre painter, granddaughter of
James Ward, R.A., and wife of Edward M.
Ward; has exhibited at Royal Academy many
years. Works: Mary Queen of Scots quitting
Stirling (1863); Palissy the Potter (1866);
Childhood of Joan of Arc (1867); Lady Jane