Edgar Melville Ward
Edgar Melville Ward (1839–1915) was an American genre painter.
Ward was born in Urbana, Ohio. His elder brother was the sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and in Paris under Cabanel. In 1883 he became a member of the Institut de France and was made a professor there. His paintings which are soundly realistic in execution, include Breton Washwomen (1876); The Sabot Maker (1878); The Collar Shop and The Quilting Party (1892); and The Coppersmith (Metropolitan Museum, New York).
Gallery[]
The Gunsmith Shop
The Blockmaker
The Coppersmith
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty
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