Humphry Ward

Thomas Humphry Ward was born in Kingston-Upon-Hull. He studied at Merchant Taylors’ School, a selective school for boys in Hertfordshire. The school awarded him a scholarship to Brasenose College in Oxford, where he was elected a fellow in 1869. Ward became a tutor at Brasenose from 1879 to 1889.   In 1872 he married a British novelist, Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold, 1851– 1920). Together they had two daughters (G.M. Trevelyan and Dorothy Ward) and one son (Arnold Sandwith Ward). Ward left Oxford (where they had lived at 17 Bradmore Road) and settled in London in 1880, where he joined The Times as a journalist and art critic. He also published a catalogue on the collection of J. P. Morgan.   Adolphe Schloss acquired seven paintings that once were in Thomas Humphry Ward’s collection: Van Baelan’s Scènes mythologiques, Simon de Vlieger’s Marine, Dirck van Deelen’s Still Life and The Trumpet by Abraham Hondius (which may also have been in the Agnew and Sons Collection), were all transferred to the Führerbau in November 1943.    Repas rustique by Esaias Boursse – which was in Humphry’s collection from some time before 1902 until at least 1905 – and Les joueurs musiciens by Molenaer were amongst the paintings that the Louvre selected by exercising a right of pre-emption in the summer of 1943 after the collection’s confiscation by French and Nazi agents.   There is little information about the sale of these works: Van Baelen’s Scènes mythologiques appears in the Humphry Ward Sale on 25 April 1886. _Still Life _by Dirck van Deelen was part of the Christie’s Sale in London on 17 May 1872.      Links:  https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG50353 https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Ward/6000000010793492663 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Humphry_Ward https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/thomas-humphrey-ward https://arcade.nyarc.org/search~S6?/XAdolphe+Schloss+&searchscope=6&SORT=D/XAdolphe+Schloss+&searchscope=6&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Adolphe+Schloss+/1%2C155%2C155%2CB/frameset&FF=XAdolphe+Schloss+&searchscope=6&SORT=D&12%2C12%2C https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1926/Obituary/Mr._Humphry_Ward:_Art_critic_and_writer https://archive.org/details/picturesincollec00morg/page/n7/mode/2up