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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Enoch Ward, 1859-1922

Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 1859
Place of Birth: Parkgate
Date of Death: 1922.02.13
Place of Death:

Identity:

Enoch Ward was a landscape and figure painter and book illustrator.

Life:

Enoch Ward was active in London from 1891 until 1921, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the RI. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1898. He contributed illustrations marked by their social realism to the Illustrated London News, Black & White, The Queen, Ludgate Monthly and The Pall Mall Magazine. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators which invited Whistler to become its Vice-President in 1894.

Bibliography:

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; Houfe, Simon, The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, Woodbridge, 1996.