JAMES WARD, R.A. 23 1 



Society seems to have fallen through for lack of 

 funds in 1805 ; but Ward, though he is said to have 

 actually lost money over the collapse, had no reason 

 to regret the time he had spent over its partial 

 execution ; it gave him the opportunity to establish 

 his name as an animal painter and to secure a large 

 number of patrons whose orders meant financial 

 success. Among his patrons may be mentioned 

 the Dukes of Wellington, Bedford, Newcastle and 

 Northumberland, the Marquises of Exeter and 

 Huntly, the Earl of Powis, Lords de Tabley, 

 Brooke, Ribblesdale, Dewhurst and Southampton, 

 Lady Frances Vane Tempest, the Hon. C. Arbuth- 

 nott, Hon. C. Phipps, Sir Matthew White Ridley, 

 Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir J. Shelley, Sir Thomas 

 Mostyn and Sir A. Hume, Messrs. Beckford, 

 Vernon, J. Allnutt, John Wells, T. F. Heathcote, 

 T. Croak, E. Mundy and Ralph Lambton. 



In the early years of the century James Ward, it 

 is said, was earning as much as .1^50 a day ; and it 

 will be observed, from the list of his contributions 

 to the Royal Academy, that he sent in fewer 

 pictures during the years 1802-5 than at any sub- 

 sequent period of the same length. He was a 

 large and constant exhibitor ; during the sixty-three 

 years of his artistic career, only five exhibitions 

 lacked works from his easel ; he very frequently 

 sent in eight pictures, and in 181 6 he had nine on 

 the walls. 



