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JAMES WARD R.A.

(London 1769-1859 Cheshunt)

A LIONESS WITH A HERON

Oil on canvas; 110 x 145 cm (43¼ x 57 in)

Signed and dated JWARD R.A./ 1816

PROVENANCE:

Acquired directly from the artist by Thomas Garle; his sale, Christie’s, 24 May 1862, lot 77; where
acquired by;
P. & D. Colnaghi.2
Hugh Robert Hughes, Kinmel Park, Abergele, North Wales.
James Staats Forbes; his sale, Christie’s, 2 June 1916, lot 164; where acquired by;
Mr. Buck.3
Mrs. Marion Green; her sale, Robinson Fisher & Harding, London, 8 October 1925, lot 174.4
With John Nicholson Gallery, New York.
Collection Museo de Arte de Ponce, The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc., Ponce, Puerto Rico
(by 1959).

EXHIBITION:

London, British Institution, 1817, cat. no. 176 .
London, Royal Academy, Old Masters and deceased masters of the British School, 1885, cat. no. 58 (when
lent by Hugh Robert Hughes).
London, Guildhall, 1894, cat. no. 86 (when lent by James Staats Forbes).
Bristol, City Art Gallery, Animals in Art, 1908, cat. no. 160 (when lent by the executors of the Estate
of the late James Staats Forbes).

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