Charles D Ward - Introduction

[The Obsequeous Persian] 1911

oil on canvas
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signed and dated l.l.: CHAS D WARD - 1911; signed and inscribed with title and artist's address on the stretcher
oil on canvas
82 by 107 cm., 32 1/4 by 42 in.

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b. 1872, fl. 1898 - 1935

Portraits, figures and landscape painter. Studied at the RCA and exhibited at the RA. Lived in Chelsea and later at Blewbury, Berkshire. Born in Taunton, Somerset.

Charles Daniel

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[The Progress of Spring] 1905
oil on canvas
http://en.easyart.com/art-prints/artists/Charles-Daniel-Ward-768.html
Charles Ward's allegory of Spring was exhibited at the 1905 Royal Academy. His source for this painting seems to have been the Roman writer Virgil's pastoral poem, The Georgics.
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/progress-spring.html
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