Self Portrait

ID: #24999 | Classicism | Portraits

Date: 1830
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA
Dimensions: 63.5 x 76

Ward painted picture Self Portrait in 1830. Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is portrait. Original size is 63.5 x 76. This art piece is located in Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

The most striking Classicist animal painter of his generation, James Ward (1769-1859) was influenced throughout his artistic career by Peter Paul Rubens. He did not want to be labelled as solely a painter of animals, and despite painting landscapes, portraits and historical paintings, he became famous particularly for his animal paintings. He painted not only hunting hobbies but also dogs and horses. Ward earned fame and fortune particularly for his connection between horses and portraits. At the end of his life, he was very dissatisfied with the artistic life, and therefore created several religiously toned paintings conveying certain messages. A sudden stroke in 1855 ended his work.