Artist Keywords
Jacob Caleb Ward

Auction Records (6)   For Sale (0)   Bio/Info   Free Alerts  
Upcoming (0) Wanted (0) Related Artists (0) Pricing my art
Charts (6) Dealers (1) Signatures (1)
Jacob Caleb Ward (1809 - 1891) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Chile.  Jacob Ward is known for Bucolic landscape and still life painting, illustration.

A landscape painter and pioneer of daguerreotype, Jacob Ward was born in 1809 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He was the son of Caleb Ward, an artist, and the brother of Charles V. Ward, with whom he traveled to South America.

In 1820, he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, where he continued to show his work sporadically. In the 1830s he drew illustrations for the medical texts of David Hosack, and also went into Virginia where he painted the Natural Bridge. In about 1836, he traveled West with a friend who had inherited property in Iowa.

On that trip he saw the headwaters of the Mississippi and made portrait sketches of Indians and also painted Saint Anthony Falls and Fort Snelling. The New York Mirror reproduced his Soaking Mountain on the Upper Mississippi, one of the most successful pictures resulting from that trip.

Ward was recommended for a position on the Wilkes Maritime Expedition, but for personal reasons remained at   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2684 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 6 auction lots for Jacob Caleb Ward (of which 5 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Jacob Caleb Ward as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Jacob Caleb Ward in 1 of its research Essays. Jacob Caleb Ward has 1 artist signature examples available in our database.





Copyright © 1999-2024 askART.com and underlying auction houses. All Rights Reserved. Digital copying of these images and content strictly prohibited; violators will be subject to the law including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Keywords and Quick Facts for Jacob Caleb Ward


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Daguerreotypist
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Photography as Fine Art
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Fort Snelling, Minnesota
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Medical Subjects, Illustration, Painting and/or Photographsy
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
  • Europe
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
  • Mississippi River Valley
  • South America
  • Virginia Before 1900
Art Association
  • American Art Union
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Art Union-
  • National Academy of Design, New York

The above Keywords are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. Sources include books, periodicals, auction records, family members, friends, and professional researchers. askART has derived Quick Facts as a brief overview; it is not a complete list rather it is a list that is most frequently cited.
Top