John Stanton Ward (1917 – 2007)

John Ward CBE was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator. His subjects included British royalty and celebrities.He was educated at St Owen’s School in Hereford, and then from 1932 to 1936 at the small Hereford School of Arts and Crafts.

With financial support from the Principal, Sir William Rothenstein, he won a place at the Royal College of Art in London in 1936, where he studied under Gilbert Spencer, Barnett Freedman, Percy Horton, Charles Mahoney and Alan Sorrell, winning the prize for drawing.