Daisy Linda Ward, née Travers (1883–1937) was a still life painter from

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, best known for her collection of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings that was bequeathed by her husband in her name to the

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. Ward was born in

and married the British businessman Theodore William Holzapfel, who had taken his mother's maiden name of Ward to avoid anti-German sentiment during World War One. Theodore Ward had a professional interest in painting as a director of his family firm, Holzapfel (subsequently known as

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), manufacturers of marine, domestic and industrial paints and coatings based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, and Felling. The couple collected Dutch and Flemish 17th-century paintings. She became a still life painter and took her inspiration from works in her collection and elsewhere. She showed her work at the

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summer exhibition for the first time in 1925. Two of her paintings were included in the Ashmolean bequest that comprises 96 paintings.Daisy Linda Ward
on

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References

* The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward ... By Fred G. Meijer
Background of the Daisy Linda Ward bequest
1883 births 1937 deaths Artists from New Jersey American women painters {{US-painter-stub