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LONDON, Piccadilly, Royal Academy Antique School, ivory, legend above 1768, rev. named (B.E. Ward, Admitted 30th Decr. 1876), 52mm, 11.86g (W 1033; D & W 63/143). About extremely fine, very rare £200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes from the Collection formed by Philip Jones.

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Bernard Evans Ward (1857-1933), b London, was a renowned painter of the Victorian era who won a gold medal for some of his works exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists. Together with a contemporary art teacher, Elíseo Abelardo Alvarez Calderón (1847-1911), he founded the St John's Wood Art School, at 7 Elm Tree road, N.W., in 1878; among the teachers they hired was Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and herself part of the Bloomsbury group of artists. After a lawsuit had cost him his fortune, Ward emigrated to the USA, living firstly near Cleveland, Ohio, then by the early 1920s in Florida, before returning to Akron, Ohio, where he died in August 1933 at the age of 76.

Prospective buyers please note: ivory is covered by CITES legislation and in all probability this item cannot be exported from the UK