Year End Holiday Prestige Sale
Lot 138:
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Keywords: Victorian Era, Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite Movement, Academic Art, Realism, 19th Century British School, John Everett Millais style, Dante Gabriel Rossetti style, Edward Burne-Jones style, watercolor, paper, 19th century, interior study, architectural detail, chiaroscuro lighting, picture
Edward Matthew Ward Signed Watercolor painting on Paper, 1869. Ward studied in Rome and won a silver medal at the Academy of St Luke for his historical compositions, which he pursued throughout his career.
Artist Bio: On his return to London he entered the Westminster Hall competitions to provide designs for decorative schemes for the new building and in 1852 he was commissioned to paint eight subjects of English eighteenth-century history in the House of Commons.
Clearly influenced by Paul Delaroche’s historic masterpieces such as The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (Royal Academy, 1834), Ward enjoyed the most success in depicting scenes from the French Revolution. Works of the 1850s by Ward and Delaroche illustrate the narrative chronologically: in 1851 Ward exhibited The French royal family during their confinement in the Temple at the Royal Academy, then in 1853 Delaroche exhibited Marie-Antoinette before the tribunal. QUOTED FROM from Christie’s LONDON
Measurements: Art: 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (19.7 x 12.1 cm.) approx
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