This author also notices the affiliation of this young woman with the efforts of the Tanagra workers, and says:  “But if the inspiration of the young woman is evident, her work can in no way be called imitative.”

VOS, MARIA. Born in Amsterdam, 1824.  Pupil of P. Kiers.  Her pictures were principally of still-life, two of which are seen in the Amsterdam Museum.

WAGNER, MARIA DOROTHEA; family name Dietrich. 1728-1792.  The gallery of Wiesbaden has two of her landscapes, as has also the Museum at Gotha.  “Der Muehlengrund,” representing a valley with a brook and a mill, is in the Dresden Gallery.

WARD, MISS E. This sculptor has a commission to make a statue of G. R. Clark for the St. Louis Exposition.

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WARD, HENRIETTA MARY ADA. Gold and silver medals at the Crystal Palace; bronze medal at the Vienna Exposition, 1873.  Born in Newman Street, London, when that street and the neighborhood was the quarter in which the then celebrated artists resided.  Mrs. Ward was a pupil of the Bloomsbury Art School and of Sak’s Academy.  Her grandfather, James Ward, was a royal Academician, and one of the best animal painters of England.  While Sir Thomas Lawrence lived, Mrs. Ward’s father, who was a miniaturist, was much occupied in copying the works of Sir Thomas on ivory, as the celebrated portrait painter would permit no other artist to repeat them.  After the death of Sir Thomas, Mr. Ward became an engraver.  Her mother was also a miniature painter.  Her great-uncles were William Ward, R.A., and George Morland; John Jackson, R.A., was her uncle; and her husband, Edward M. Ward, to whom she was married at sixteen, was also a Royal Academican.

From 1849, Mrs. Ward exhibited at the Royal Academy during thirty years, without a break, but her husband’s death caused her to omit some exhibitions, and since that time her exhibits have been less regular.  For some years Mrs. Ward has had successful classes for women at Chester Studios, which have somewhat interfered with her painting.

Mrs. Ward’s subjects have been historical and genre, some of which are extensively known by prints after them.  Among these are “Joan of Arc,” “Palissy the Potter,” and “Mrs. Fry and Mary Saunderson visiting Prisoners at Newgate,” the last dedicated by permission to Queen Victoria.  This picture was purchased by an American.

Of her picture of “Mary of Scotland, giving her infant to the Care of Lord Mar,” Palgrave wrote:  “This work is finely painted, and tells its tale with clearness.”  Among her numerous works are:  “The Poet Hogg’s First Love”; “Chatterton,” the poet, in the Muniment Room, Bristol; “Lady Jane Grey refusing the Crown of England”; “Antwerp Market”; “Queen Mary of Scots’ farewell to James I.”; “Washing Day at the Liverpool Docks”; “The Princes in the Tower”; “George III. and Mrs. Delayney, with his family at Windsor”; “The Young Pretender,” and many others.