WARD, James, English artist: b. London, 23 Oct 1769; d. Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, 23 Nov. 1859. He studied the engraver's art in his boyhood and also early turned his attention to painting, in which he was a pupil of Morland, who married his sister. He was elected R.A. in _1811, His first painting was exhibited in 1790, and from that time to his death he pro duced numerous pictures of different tnes, though his best work was done in the painting of animals. His most important works are (Bull-baiting> (1797) ; the 'Alderney Bull, Cow, and Calf in a Meadow' (1820-22), his masterpiece, now in the National Gallery, painted in rivalry with Paul Potter's celebrated picture; (Allegory of Waterloo' (1817), a sketch for the British Institution which he afterward painted larger with less success; (Gordale Scar, Yorkshire,' in the National Gallery (this great picture with its noble group of cattle which was presented by Lord Ribber dale to the British Museum with a view to its transference to the British Museum was rolled up and consigned to a cellar until 1858, though it eventually reached its destination in 1878); (Harlech Castle,' also in the National Gallery; (Regent's Park in 1807); 'A Cattle Piece,' also in tbe National Gallery; (Bulls Fighting in a Landscape,' a work of great merit, now tn the South Kensington Museum; (Donkey and Pigs,' also in the museum at South Kensing ton; (Pigs,' and (A Chinese Sow,) in the same collection; (The Council of Horses,' in the Manchester Gallery, and (De Tabley Park,' in the Oldham Gallery. Among his engravigs
the most noteworthy are after Rembrandt, Hoppner, Rubens, Northcote, Morland and Reynolds. As an engraver he was not less successful than as a painter and a complete set of impressions of all his plates, in their different states, 300 in all, was presented by him to the British Museum before his death.