236 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Calf," is a portrait of a flea-bitten grey Arab which 

 was painted in 1828. This painting was shown 

 for the first time at the Winter Exhibition of Old 

 Masters in 1879. 



Portraits of ladies and gentlemen, sporting and 

 domestic scenes, and landscapes came from Ward's 

 prolific brush. During his later years his work, 

 attained its widest variety, and at this period too, 

 we find in his Royal Academy contributions evidence 

 of the taste for allegorical art which he now per- 

 mitted himself to indulge. Religious subjects, 

 significant perhaps of the bent of the artist's thoughts 

 in his advancing age, figure conspicuously in 1850. 

 During the last few years of his life, however, he 

 returned to more accustomed grooves, if his con- 

 tributions to the Burlingrton House Exhibitions 

 fairly represent his work. 



From the year 1792 to 1855 inclusive, James 

 Ward sent no fewer than 287 pictures to the Royal 

 Academy ; he was also a frequent contributor to 

 the Exhibitions at the Royal Institution, the 

 Suffolk Street Gallery and the Society of Artists. 

 Engravings from some sixteen of his pictures 

 appeared in the Sporting Magazine between the 

 years 1807-18 18 ; and one in the Neii) Sporiing 

 Magazine ; the majority of these possess sporting 

 interest, but in no case is there a strictly sporting 

 scene. Many of his works are widely known 



