James Ward
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Selected Works9

Museum Acquisitions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
A Shorthorn Heifer
A Shorthorn Heifer, 1800
Acquired 2025
Oil over pencil on artist's board
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso]
Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso], 1820
Acquired 2024
Watercolor on two sheets of wove paper, mounted to thick wove paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
A View in Somersetshire from Fitzhead, the Seat of Lord Somerville
A View in Somersetshire from Fitzhead, the Seat of Lord Somerville, 1805
Acquired 2024
Oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pegwell Bay
Pegwell Bay, 1816
Acquired 2016
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Doctor Syntax
Doctor Syntax, 1823
Acquired 1999
Lithograph, proof before lettering
Art Institute of Chicago
Walton
Walton, 1823
Acquired 1992
Lithograph on ivory chine, laid down on off-white wove paper

Previous Sales

Sotheby's
Tumble at the Ditch
Tumble at the Ditch
$1,700
Jan 2022
Christie's
Portrait of Josias Herd Harling (1818-1850), bust-length, in a black coat and tie
Portrait of Josias Herd Harling (1818-1850), bust-length, in a black coat and tie
£336 ($444 USD)
May 2006
Christie's
A wooded landscape, a sketch
A wooded landscape, a sketch
£537 ($709 USD)
May 2004
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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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A Shorthorn Heifer
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2025 · Accession BF.2025.3 · Oil over pencil on artist's board
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2024 · Accession 2024.17 · Watercolor on two sheets of wove paper, mounted to thick wove paper
The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Beechie Chew Hutcheson Kampmann
A View in Somersetshire from Fitzhead, the Seat of Lord Somerville
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2024 · Accession BF.2024.7 · Oil on panel
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Pegwell Bay
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2016 · Accession 2016.2 · Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer, in honor of Verneen and Madison Woodward
A Rocky Stream
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.105 · Graphite
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Doctor Syntax
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 1999 · Accession 99.486 · Lithograph, proof before lettering
Museum purchase funded by Tom Roupe at "One Great Night in November, 1999"
A Calf
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1997 · Accession T09303 · Graphite and chalk on paper
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
A Dog Lying Down
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1997 · Accession T09258 · Graphite and watercolour on paper
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
A Lion and Tiger Fighting
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1994 · Accession 1994.170.3 · Mezzotint, printed in brown ink and green ink à la poupée; published state
Gift of Herbert Mitchell, 1994
The Centurion Cornelius
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1994 · Accession 1994.170.4 · Mezzotint
Gift of Herbert Mitchell, 1994
Walton
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1992 · Accession 1991.626 · Lithograph on ivory chine, laid down on off-white wove paper
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Gordale, Looking Out (Study for ‘Gordale Scar’)
Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1990 · Accession T05833 · Graphite on paper
Purchased 1990
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death
James Ward dies
Jan 1, 1859
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birth
James Ward born
Jan 1, 1769