E.M. Ward, The South Sea Bubble" (1846), a Hogarthian subject in the Tate Gallery

Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) was a Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution. The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of five galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Online (1998) and Tate Modern (2000). ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... The Palace of Westminster lies on the bank of the River Thames. ... The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of... The term Glorious Revolution refers to the generally popular overthrow of James II of England in 1688. ...

As a student at the Royal Academy of Arts Ward became a member of The Clique, a group of painters led by Richard Dadd. Like other members of the Clique Ward saw himself as a follower of Hogarth and Wilkie, considering their styles to be distinctly national in character. Many of his early paintings were set in the eighteenth century and were on Hogarthian subjects. He also painted episodes from seventeenth century history, influenced by the thinking of his friend, the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay. He also painted subjects from the history of the French Revolution. This article refers to an art institution in London. ... Henry ONeil, The Pre-Raphaelite, a satire on the Pre-Raphaelites painted by ONeil in 1857 The Clique was a group of Victorian artists founded by Richard Dadd. ... Richard Dadd (August 1, 1817 - January 7, 1886) was a Victorian painter of fairy subjects, in obsessively minuscule detail of fairies and other supernatural subjects. ... William Hogarth William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 - October 26, 1764) was a major British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ... Sir David Wilkie (November 18, 1785 - June 1, 1841) was a Scottish painter. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Quotes His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. ... The period of the French Revolution is very important in the history of France and the world. ...

In the 1850s Ward came into conflict with the Pre-Raphaelites, especially Millais, whose style of art he considered to be un-British. Ward's painting of Charlotte Corday being led to execution beat Millais's Ophelia for a prize at Liverpool, leading to much debate at the time. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ... John Everett Millais (June 8, 1829–August 13, 1896) was a painter. ... Charlotte Corday by Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry, painted 1858: Under the Second Empire, Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster and Corday as a heroine of France, represented in the wall-map. ... Ophelia is a painting by John Everett Millais, painted in 1852. ...

Such historical paintings led to Ward's commission to paint eight scenes in the corridor leading into the House of Commons. These were to depict parallel epsodes on the Royalist and Parliamentary sides in the Civil War. Ward's paintings depict the opposed figures as if confronting one another across the corridor. In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ... A parliamentarian is a specialist in parliamentary procedure. ...

Ward continued to paint Hogarthian versions of episodes from British history throughout the 1860s, notably Hogarth's Studio in 1739 (1863, York City Art Gallery) the Antechamber at Whitehall During the Dying Moments of Charles II (1865, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). In the 1870s he painted some modern-life genre subjects, but towards the end of the decade began to suffer painful illness and depression, resulting in his suicide in 1879. This page is about the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. ...

His wife Henrietta Ward was also a painter. After her husband's death she became a successful art teacher. His son Leslie Ward became a popular caricaturist for the magazine Vanity Fair under the nickname 'Spy'. Caricature of Alan Greenspan by Jan Op De Beeck. ... This article is on the novel, Vanity Fair. ...