biography of Charles Caleb WARD (1831-1896)

Birth place: St. John, NB

Death place: Rothesay, NB

Addresses: NYC, 1850-51; New Brunswick, 1856; NYC 1868-72; Rothesay, NB, 1882-96

Profession: Genre, landscape & portrait painter

Studied: William Henry Hunt in London

Exhibited: NAD, 1850-83; Brooklyn AA, 1868-81; AIC.

Comments: His grandfather left NYC for St. John's, NB, because of his Loyalist sympathies. As a young man Charles Ward was sent to London to learn the family business, but he took up painting instead.

Sources: G&W; Green, Charles Caleb Ward, the Painter of the 'Circus is Coming,'" eight repros., checklist; Cowdrey, NAD; obit., Boston Transcript, Feb. 26, 1896."