Richard Arthur Ledward (1857 – 28 October 1890), born in the
Staffordshire Potteries in England, was a sculptor and teacher of pottery modelling.
Life
Ledward was born in
Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1857; he was a son of Richard Perry Ledward, of the firm Pinder, Bourne & Co. of Burslem. Ledward was employed as modeller by that firm, and studied in the
Burslem School of Art; on obtaining a national scholarship he continued his studies at the
South Kensington School of Art. There he obtained a gold medal for modelling from the life, and was appointed a master of modelling.
Subsequently he became modelling master at the
Westminster School of Art and
Blackheath School of Art
The Conservatoire (formally The Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and the Arts) is an educational charity in Blackheath, on the border of the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. The Conservatoire of Music and the Arts took on its current ...
. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy
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in 1882 and the following years. One work of his, "A Young Mother", attracted favourable notice. He made several well-regarded busts, including those of
Henry Broadhurst,
William Ewart Gladstone, Sir
Philip Cunliffe-Owen, and others.
Ledward lived in
Chelsea, and died of rheumatism on 28 October 1890. He was buried at
Perivale Church, near Ealing.
Family
In 1883 he married Mary Jane Wood, sister of Ambrose Wood of Hanley. Their children included the sculptor
Gilbert Ledward; Hilda, who married the sculptor
Newbury Abbot Trent; and Enid, who married the painter
Percy Hague Jowett.
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
References
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1857 births
1890 deaths
People from Burslem
19th-century British sculptors