UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Rudolph Onslow Ford, ca 1880-??

Nationality: British
Date of Birth: 1880 ca
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death:
Place of Death:

Identity:

Rudolph Onslow Ford was an artist.

Life:

Ford was an active exhibitor between 1897 and 1918, showing at the Royal Academy and New Gallery in London, as well as at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. In 1884 Ford's name was included in a list of people to be invited to a private view of JW's one-man exhibition, 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', held in the Dowdeswell's Gallery [#08711].

He may have been related to Wolfram Onslow Ford, who made a portrait of JW (Witt Photographic Library).

In 1889 both Rudolph Onslow Ford and JW attended in London a farewell banquet to the U.S. Minister E. J. Phelps (#07040).

Bibliography:

Bénézit, E., Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1960; Johnson, J., and Anna Greutzner, Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1980; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980; MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995.