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1809 Bloomfield, New Jersey - 1891 Bloomfield, New Jersey. Known for: Bucolic landscape and still life painting, illustration.
A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he... Read full biography
A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he traveled to South America. In 1820, he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design,... Read full biography
A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he traveled to South America. In 1820, he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, where he continued to show his work sporadically. In the 1830s he drew illustrations for the medical texts of David Hosack, and also went into Virginia where he painted the Natural Bridge. In about... Read full biography
A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he traveled to South America. In 1820, he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, where he continued to show his work sporadically. In the 1830s he drew illustrations for the medical texts of David Hosack, and also went into Virginia where he painted the Natural Bridge. In about 1836, he traveled West with a friend who had inherited property in Iowa. On that trip he saw the headwaters of the Mississippi and made portrait sketches of Indians and also painted Saint Anthony Falls and Fort Snelling. The New York Mirror reproduced... Read full biography
A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he traveled to South America. In 1820, he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, where he continued to show his work sporadically. In the 1830s he drew illustrations for the medical texts of David Hosack, and also went into Virginia where he painted the Natural Bridge. In about 1836, he traveled West with a friend who had inherited property in Iowa. On that trip he saw the headwaters of the Mississippi and made portrait sketches of Indians and also painted Saint Anthony Falls and Fort Snelling. The New York Mirror reproduced his Soaking Mountain on the Upper Mississippi, one of the most successful pictures resulting from that trip. Ward wa... Read full biography
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Keywords (27)
Art Method
- •Daguerreotypist
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Fort Snelling, Minnesota
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Medical Subjects, Illustration, Painting and/or Photographsy
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Mississippi River Valley
- •South America
- •Virginia Before 1900
Art Association
- •American Art Union
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Art Union-
- •National Academy of Design, New York