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FORD, EDWARD ONSLOW

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORD, See also:EDWARD See also:ONSLOW j9o1), See also:English sculptor, was See also:born in See also:London. He receivea some See also:education as a painter in See also:Antwerp and as a sculptor in See also:Munich under See also:Professor Wagmuller, but was mainly self-taught. His first contribution to the Royal See also:Academy, in 1875, was a bust of his wife, and in See also:portraiture he may be said to have achieved his greatest success. His busts are always extremely refined and show his sitters at their best. Those (in See also:bronze) of his See also:fellow-artists See also:Arthur Hacker (1894), Briton See also:Riviere and See also:Sir W. Q. See also:Orchardson (1895), Sir L. See also:Alma Tadema (1896), Sir See also:Hubert von Herkomer and Sir See also:John See also:Millais (1897), and of A. J. See also:Balfour are all striking likenesses, and are equalled by that in See also:marble of Sir See also:Frederick See also:Bramwell (for the Royal Institution) and by many more. He gained the open competition for the statue of Sir See also:Rowland See also:Hill, erected in 1882 outside the Royal See also:Exchange, and followed it in 1883 with " See also:Henry See also:Irving as See also:Hamlet," now in the See also:Guildhall See also:art See also:gallery. This seated statue, See also:good as it is, was soon surpassed by those of Dr See also:Dale (1898, in the See also:city museum, See also:Birmingham) and Professor See also:Huxley (1900), but the See also:colossal memorial statue of See also:Queen See also:Victoria (igor), for See also:Manchester, was less successful.

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standing statue of W. E. See also:Gladstone (1894, for the City Liberal See also:Club, London) is to be regarded as one of Ford's better portrait See also:works. The colossal " See also:General See also:Charles See also:Gordon," See also:camel-mounted, for See also:Chatham, " See also:Lord See also:Strathnairn," an equestrian See also:group for Knightsbridge, and the " Maharajah of See also:Mysore " (19oo) comprise his larger works of the See also:kind. A beautiful nude recumbent statue of See also:Shelley (1892) upon a cleverly-designed See also:base, which is not quite impeccable from the point of view of See also:artistic See also:taste, is at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, and a simplified version was presented by him to be set up on the See also:shore of See also:Viareggio, where the poet's See also:body was washed up. Ford's ideal See also:work has See also:great See also:charm and daintiness; his statue " Folly " (1886) was bought by the trustees of the See also:Chantrey Fund, and was followed by other statues or statuettes of a similar See also:order: " See also:Peace " (189o), which secured his See also:election as an See also:associate of the Royal Academy, " See also:Echo " (1895), on which he was elected full member, " The See also:Egyptian See also:Singer " (1889), " See also:Applause " (1893), " See also:Glory to the Dead " (Igo1) and "Snowdrift" (1902). Ford's See also:influence on the younger See also:generation of sculptors was considerable and of good effect. His charming disposition rendered him extremely popular, and when he died a See also:monument was erected to his memory (C. Lucchesi, sculptor, J. W. See also:Simpson, architect) in St John's See also:Wood, near to where he dwelt. See See also:SCULPTURE; also M.

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British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-See also:day (London, 1901).

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