234 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



1824 : this must have been a different picture from 

 the one which was engraved (plate 18 inches by 13^) 

 and published in 1823 by R. Ackermann and Rod- 

 well and Martin. The portrait of Phantom was 

 engraved, plate 18 inches by 13 inches, and pub- 

 lished in London in April, 1823. That of the 

 Duke of York's Moses was shown at the Royal 

 Academy exhibition of 1825, and was engraved and 

 published in October of the same year by R. Acker- 

 mann ; size of plate, 18 inches by 13 inches. 



Ward's best known work is undoubtedly the 

 large " Bull, Cow and Calf," which hangs in the 

 National Gallery. This picture, 10 feet 8 inches by 

 15 feet 10 inches, shows an Alderney bull, cow and 

 calf, standing, in the centre ; a black cow lying 

 down in the right foreground, with sheep and a 

 goat in the middle foreground ; and in the distance, 

 meadows with cattle grazing. The animals por- 

 trayed belonged to Mr. Allnutt, of Clapham. This 

 work, painted in 1820-22, was undertaken at the 

 suggestion of Benjamin West, P.R.A., who thought 

 Paul Potter's famous " Bull " an over-rated per- 

 formance and considered Ward capable of better 

 work. The picture was exhibited in 1823 at the 

 British Institution, and afterwards sent over to 

 America and exhibited in New York, where it was 

 so greatly admired that Ward said, " They declared 

 I had reached the rt(:we of perfection." In 1848, it 



