Tuesday, April 29, 2025

James Ward
(1769 - 1859)
 

James Ward RA was an English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver. From 1810 or so onward, Ward specialised in painting horses within landscapes; slightly later, he turned to very large-scale landscapes, of which Gordale Scar (Tate, London), completed in 1814 or 1815 and depicting Gordale Scar (Yorkshire) as an example of the sublime, is considered his masterpiece and a masterpiece of English Romantic painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ward_(English_artist)


Sleeping Pig
Undated
Black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly, cream wove paper
14x 26 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1909

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