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'''Edward Onslow Ford''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (27 July 1852 – 23 December 1901) was an English sculptor. Much of Ford's early success came with portrait heads or busts. These were considered extremely refined, showing his subjects at their best and led to him receiving a number of commissions for public monuments and statues, both in Britain and overseas. Ford also produced a number of bronze statuettes of free-standing figures loosely drawn from mythology or of allegorical subjects. These 'ideal' figures became characteristic of the [[New Sculpture]] movement that developed in Britain from about 1880 and of which Ford was a leading exponent.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Ford was born at [[Islington]] in north London, the son of businessman Edward Ford and Martha Lydia Gardner. His family moved to [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]] while he was still a child. After he had spent some time at [[Blackheath Proprietary School]], he went to Antwerp to study painting at [[Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp)|Royal Academy of Fine Arts]] there during 1870 and 1871.<ref name="MapEOF">{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1207247692|title=Edward Onslow Ford RA|year=2011|access-date=5 September 2021|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=30 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830052531/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1207247692|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ford then studied under [[Michael Wagmüller]] in Munich until 1874, during which time he shared a studio with the sculptor [[Edwin Roscoe Mullins]].<ref>{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208189148|title=Edwin Roscoe Mullins|year=2011|access-date=9 September 2021|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928050751/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208189148|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Fate">{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8862/fate-statuette-ford-edward-onslow/|title=Fate|website=Victoria & Albert Museum|access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref> Before leaving Munich, Ford married a fellow student Anne Gwendoline, the third daughter of Baron Frans von Kreusser, in 1873.<ref name="DNB12">{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Ford, Edward Onslow|author=Walter Armstrong|page=39}}</ref><ref name="Mackay">{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}</ref>

===Portrait work===
[[File:George Henschel by Edward Onslow Ford , SNPG.JPG|thumb|[[George Henschel]] by Edward Onslow Ford, 1895]]
On returning to England around 1874, Ford settled at Blackheath and established a studio concentrating on portrait sculptures.<ref name="MapEOF"/>  In 1875, he submitted a portrait bust he had sculpted of his wife to the [[Royal Academy Summer Exhibition]] in London.<ref name="DNB12"/><ref name="Mackay"/> From 1875 to 1884 Ford exhibited portrait sculptures each year at the Academy.<ref name="Beattie">{{cite book|author=Susan Beattie|publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press|year=1983|title=The New Sculpture |isbn= 0300033591}}</ref>

Much of Ford's early success came in portraiture. His portrait busts are extremely refined and show his subjects at their best.  He sculpted many portrait busts which are noted for their tasteful conception, delicate modelling, and verisimilitude. The best, perhaps, are the heads of [[John Everett Millais]], [[Thomas Huxley]], [[Herbert Spencer]], [[William Quiller Orchardson|Sir WQ Orchardson]], [[Matthew Ridley Corbet]], the duke of Norfolk, [[Briton Rivière]], Sir [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]], Sir [[Walter Armstrong (art historian)|Walter Armstrong]], Sir [[Hubert von Herkomer]], [[Arthur Hacker]] (1894), and M. [[Dagnan-Bouveret]].<ref name="Mackay"/><ref name="eb1911">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Ford, Edward Onslow}}</ref><ref name="DNB12"/> Those in bronze of his fellow-artist Arthur Hacker (1894) and of the politician [[Arthur Balfour]] are striking likenesses, as is the marble statue of Sir [[Frederick Bramwell]] for the [[Royal Institution]].<ref name="eb1911"/>

In 1881 Ford moved his studio operation to Sydney Mews, among a block of studios off the Fulham Road.<ref name="Beattie"/> [[Alfred Gilbert]] had a neighbouring studio and together they worked on a number of experimental techniques, notably in [[lost wax casting]] which Ford would use throughout his career.<ref name="MapEOF"/>

===Exhibition pieces===
In 1885 Ford exhibited a full-size bronze male nude, ''Linus'' at the Royal Academy and the following year exhibited ''Folly'' there, the first in an extended series of bronze statuettes of adolescent girls in poses loosely derived from mythology or allegorical themes.<ref name="Beattie"/> ''Folly'' was acquired by the Trusties of the [[Chantrey Fund]] for the [[Tate]] in 1886 and Ford's subsequent variations on the subject, including ''Peace'' (1887), ''The Singer'' (1889), ''Applause'' (1893) and ''Echo'' (1895) were also widely praised.<ref name="eb1911"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ford-folly-n01758|title=Edward Onslow Ford, 'Folly' exhibited 1886|website=Tate Etc.|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="Beattie"/><ref name="DArts">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/the-singer-and-applause-edward-onslow-ford/ford-and-the-decorative-arts|title=Ford and the Decorative Arts, ''The Singer'' exhibited 1889 and ''Applause'' 1893 by Edward Onslow Ford|author=Jason Edwards|year=2013|website=Tate|access-date= 10 September 2021}}</ref> These works, termed 'ideal figures', came to be regarded by art critics as among the defining works of the [[New Sculpture]] movement that had developed in Britain from about 1880 onwards as a reaction to the blandness of much other Victorian sculpture.<ref name="Beattie"/><ref name="ODArt">{{cite book|author=Ian Chilvers|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art|isbn=0-19-860476-9}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="250">
File:Edward Onslow Ford - Folly, 1886, front - on temporary display at Tate Britain, August 2010.png|''Folly'', 1886
File:Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - Peace (1887) front left 2 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, May 2012 (7224823738).png| ''Peace'', 1887
File:Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) front right 2, once again on display at Tate Britain, Feb 2015 (16490688960).png|''The Singer'', or ''The Egyptian Singer'', 1889
File:Edward Onslow Ford - Applause, 1893, front - on temporary display at Tate Britain, September 2010.png|''Applause'', 1893
File:Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - Echo (1895) front, Lady Lever Art Gallery, June 2013 (9095271627).png| ''Echo'', 1895 
</gallery>

The modest scale of these works by Ford indicate they were not intended for grand country houses but rather for smaller domestic settings and, like other New Sculpture artists, Ford supported the commercial production of bronze statuettes and smaller copies of his work for the home market with ''Peace'' and other works by him becoming popular reproductions.<ref name="Mackay"/><ref name="Beattie"/> Another characteristic of New Sculpture which Ford embraced was the use of polychromatic materials. For example, ''Applause'' has coloured resins with semi-precious stones and elements in silver, while ''The Singer'' uses copper and brass strips.<ref name="Statuettes">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/the-singer-and-applause-edward-onslow-ford/the-statuettes|title= The Statuettes, ''The Singer'' exhibited 1889 and ''Applause'' 1893 by Edward Onslow Ford|author=Jason Edwards|year=2013|website=Tate|access-date= 10 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="DArts"/>

''The Singer'' and '''Applause'' were both originally on lotus-shaped pedestals (now presumed lost), share the use of Egyptian motifs and iconography and are related by subject matter. Although created four years apart, Ford clearly considered the two works a pair and they each appear in several portraits of him, indicating both their significance to him personally and their place as his most widely exhibited works.<ref name="Statuettes"/><ref name="ScVic"/> The two were only exhibited together once, at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900, during Ford's lifetime but since 2008 both have been in the [[Tate]] collection in London.<ref name="Statuettes"/><ref name="ScVic"/>

===Public monuments===
Alongside his portrait work, Ford received his first public commission in 1881 for the statue of
[[Rowland Hill]] now at King Edward Street in London.<ref name="Fate"/> Other notable commissions included ''Irving as Hamlet'' (1883) depicting [[Henry Irving]], found in the [[Guildhall Art Gallery]] and the [[Shelley Memorial]] in University College, Oxford (1892).<ref name="eb1911"/> The standing statue of [[William Ewart Gladstone]], 1894, for the City Liberal Club, London, is regarded as one of Ford's best portrait works.<ref name="eb1911"/><ref name="DNB12"/>

A number of Ford's monumental commissions celebrate the [[British Empire]], either by promoting imperial values or as memorials to military figures.<ref name="ScVic">{{cite book|author=Martina Droth, Jason Edwards & Michael Hatt|publisher=Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press|year=2014|title= Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837–1901 |isbn=9780300208030}}</ref> A memorial statue by Ford from 1890, depicting [[Charles George Gordon|General Gordon]] on a camel, stands at [[Brompton Barracks]], Chatham, the home of the [[Royal School of Military Engineering]].<ref name="JoDarke">{{cite book|author=Jo Darke|publisher=Macdonald Illustrated|year=1991|title= The Monument Guide to England and Wales |isbn=0-356-17609-6}}</ref> A second cast of the statue was installed in Khartoum from 1904 until 1958 when, shortly after Sudan achieved its independence, the statue was removed and relocated to [[Gordon's School]] at [[Woking]] in Surrey during 1959.<ref name="JoDarke"/> Ford oversaw the production of small copies in bronze of the complete Gordon figure and of the camel alone for the domestic retail market.<ref name="Beattie"/><ref name="Empire">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/the-singer-and-applause-edward-onslow-ford/ford-and-empire |title=Ford and Empire |author=Jason Edwards|year=2013|website=Tate|access-date= 10 September 2021}}</ref> The full-size statue was exhibited in the Egyptian Hall of [[The Crystal Palace]] in south London for a time and a statuette of the camel was shown at the [[Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society]] in 1889.<ref name="ScVic"/> Ford's 1895 equestrian statue of the army officer [[Lord Strathnairn]], originally erected at Knightsbridge, was cast in gun-metal presented by the Indian government.<ref name="ScVic"/> He created a silver equestrian statuette, commissioned by the family, of [[Frederick Roberts (British Army officer, born 1872)|Frederick Roberts]], who was killed in action at the [[Battle of Colenso]] in the [[Second Boer War]].<ref name="ScVic"/>

Ford received several commissions for monuments in India. These included the 1898 statue of the Maharaja of Mysore, [[Chamarajendra Wadiyar X]] in full state regalia, installed in the [[Lal Bagh]] botanical garden in [[Bangalore]], the 1899 seated statue of [[Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh]] Bahadur of [[Raj Darbhanga|Darbhanga]] in [[Kolkata]] and two full-size statues representing ''Dance'' and ''Music'' which were commissioned by the Maharajah of Durbhanga, Lachmeswar Singh Bahadur.<ref name="Empire"/><ref>{{cite book|title=A Handbook for Travellers in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon|page=121|author=[[Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams]]}}</ref><ref name="ScVic"/>

Completed sometime during 1890, Ford's memorial to [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] was commissioned by Lady Shelley, the widow of the poets' son, [[Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet]], for the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome|Protestant Cemetery]] in Rome but was deemed too large for the intended location and eventually installed at [[University College, Oxford]].<ref name="HWJanson">{{cite book|author=HW Janson |publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1985|title=Nineteenth-century Sculpture|isbn=}}</ref> With the intended cemetery location in mind, Ford designed the monument with a tall and elaborate base in bronze and coloured marble featuring a mourning figure and winged lions supporting a marble figure of the drowned Shelley.<ref name="HWJanson"/> The work was shown at the Royal Academy in 1891, to considerable praise, before being installed at Oxford.<ref name="HWJanson"/>

For Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Ford was commissioned to create a monumental statue of the Queen for Manchester.<ref name="eb1911"/> The work was not completed until after her death and received poor reviews when exhibited, indoors, at the Royal Academy in May 1901 but was greatly praised when unveiled in a more appropriate external setting in Manchester later the same year.<ref name="ScVic"/>  Victoria sat for Ford a number of times for the Manchester monument. At her request, those studies became the basis of several portrait busts of the queen by Ford, in both marble and bronze, which she used as gifts.<ref name="BPezzini">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/classical-beauty-to-expressive-wisdom-the-changing-image-of-queen-victoria |title= Classical beauty to expressive wisdom: the changing image of Queen |date=24 May 2019 |author=Barbara Pezzini |website=[[Art UK]]|access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> Ford delivered the last of these early in January 1901, weeks before she died.<ref name="ScVic"/> He subsequently produced a number of small-scale copies, in bronze, of the work which is considered a sensitive and sympathetic study of the elderly Victoria and the last sculptured likeness of her for which she sat.<ref name="ScVic"/><ref name="BPezzini"/>

Ford was a founding member of the [[Art Workers Guild]] in 1884 and became president of the Guild in 1885.<ref name="DArts"/> He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1888 and became a full Academician in 1895.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/edward-onslow-ford-ra|title=Edward Onslow Ford RA (1852–1901)|website=Royal Academy|access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
[[File:Edward Onslow Ford Memorial, detail of bust and inscription on back (1).png|thumb|Detail of the Edward Onslow Ford Memorial, London, relief by [[Andrea Carlo Lucchesi]]]]

===Death and legacy===
Around 1900, following an extended period of over-work and stress from financial worries, Ford developed heart disease but continued working at pace and died suddenly at his home in [[St John's Wood]] on 23 December 1901.<ref name="DNB12"/><ref name="MapEOF"/> Ford's obituary in ''[[The Sketch]]'', dated 1 January 1902, states that he died of pneumonia exacerbated by a weak heart. However the suddenness of his death, and his debt issues, led to some speculation about suicide.<ref name="MapEOF"/> He was survived by his mother, his wife, four sons, and a daughter.<ref name="DNB12"/> Two of his sons had worked with Ford in his studio and they completed some of his unfinished works, most notably the marble sculpture, ''Snowdrift''.<ref name="Beattie"/> His salt cellar, in silver, ivory, marble and [[lapis lazuli]], of ''St George and the Dragon'' was completed by [[John Seymour Lucas]].<ref name="ScVic"/>

A monument was erected to Ford's memory which was designed by the architect [[John William Simpson|J W Simpson]] and sculpted by Ford's former studio assistant [[Andrea Carlo Lucchesi]] in St John's Wood, near his home. The monument comprises a stone pillar with a bronze seated figure in mourning at the front, based on Ford's statue ''The Muse of Poetry'', and a wreathed bust of Ford at rear.<ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/onslow-ford|title=Monument: Onslow Ford|website=London Remembers |access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num=1066531 |desc= Monument to Edward Onslow Ford, including pair of lamp standards|access-date= 5 September 2021}}</ref>

The [[Henry Moore Foundation]] in Leeds holds an archive of Ford's papers and correspondence.<ref name="Archive">{{cite web|url=https://www.henry-moore.org/archives-and-library/sculptors-papers-archive/archive-collections/edward-onslow-ford |title=Archive Collections Edward Onslow Ford|website=Henry Moore Foundation|access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref> The [[Fine Art Society]] held a memorial exhibition for Ford in 1905, from which the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London purchased a, unfinished, bronze titled ''Fate''.<ref name="BilbeyV&A">{{cite book|author=Diane Bilbey with Marjorie Trusted |publisher=V&A Publications|year=2002|title=British Sculpture 1470 to 2000 A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum |isbn= 1851773959}}</ref> Several other national collections in Britain hold examples of Ford's work, notably the [[Tate]], the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]] in London, the [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]] on Merseyside and the [[Walker Art Gallery]] in Liverpool.<ref name="Fate"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01629/edward-onslow-ford?role=art|title=Search the Collection (Edward) Onslow Ford|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/peace|title=Peace|website= National Museums Liverpool|access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref>

==Selected public works==
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| image = Bust of Peter de Wint, Piccadilly (cropped).jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = 8 artists
| location = Former [[Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours]] building, 190–195 [[Piccadilly]], London
| date = 1881-1883
| type = 8 busts in roundels
| material = Stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref name="Beattie"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1265805 |desc= Former Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour Premises, now forming part of Prince's House |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref>          
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| image = Statue of Rowland Hill, London, August 2014 06.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Rowland Hill, London
| subject = [[Rowland Hill]]
| location = King Edward Street, London
| date = 1881
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = Q23016273
| notes =  <ref name="Beattie"/><ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1064655 |desc= Statue of Rowland Hill |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref>     
}}
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| image       = Bust of William Adams, National Museum Cardiff 02.jpg
| commonscat  = Bust of William Adams, National Museum Cardiff
| subject     = [[William Adams (mining engineer)|William Adams]]
| location    = [[National Museum Cardiff]] 
| date        = 1887
| type        = Bust
| material =  Marble
| dimensions = 73.5cm
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://museum.wales/art/online/?action=show_item&item=583|title=Art Collection Online: William Adams|website=Amgueddfa Cymru|access-date=8 March 2023}}</ref>     
}}
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| image = Gordon Memorial, New Brompton, England-LCCN2002708002.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = General [[Charles George Gordon]] 
| location = [[Brompton Barracks]], Chatham
| date = 1890
| type = Statue of rider and camel on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II*
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1375610 |desc= Memorial to General Gordon, Brompton Barracks |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref>          
}}
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| image = Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Muse of Poetry (1891) front, Marlowe Memorial nr Marlowe Theatre, The Friars, Canterbury, UK, October 2012 (8111627288).png
| commonscat = The Muse of Poetry by Edward Onslow Ford
| subject = [[Marlowe Memorial|Memorial]] to [[Christopher Marlowe]]
| location = [[Marlowe Theatre]], The Friars, [[Canterbury]]
| date = 1891
| type = Statue on pedestal with 4 statuettes
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II 
| show_wikidata= yes
| wikidata = Q19354026
| notes =  <ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1085044 |desc=Memorial to Christopher Marlowe |access-date= 3 September 2021}}</ref> 
}}
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| image = Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford (5178754841).jpg
| commonscat = Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford
| subject = [[Shelley Memorial|Memorial]] to [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]
| location = [[University College, Oxford]]
| date = 1892
| type = Statue on podium with supporting figures
| material = Marble and bronze
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = Q4793800
| notes = <ref name="JoDarke"/><ref name="HWJanson"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cherwell.org/news/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up|title= Shelley Memorial All Washed Up|author= Josh Pull|date=22 April 2005|website= [[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]]|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
}}
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| image = Douglas Freshfield Grave Brookwood.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = Freshfield family grave
| location = [[Brookwood Cemetery]], Surrey
| date = 1892
| type = [[Aedicula]] and grave cover
| material = Marble and bronze
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{NHLE|desc=Freshfield Family Grave|num=1391038|access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>
}}
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| image = Sir WIlliam Pearce - geograph.org.uk - 1756753.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = [[Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet]]
| location = Govan Road, Glasgow
| date = 1894
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze on granite
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade B
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = Q17812525
| notes = <ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB33343|desc= Near 801 Govan Road, junction with Burleigh Street, Sir William Pearce, statue|cat=B|access-date= 7 September 2021}}</ref>
}}
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| image = Statue of Lord Strathnairn (cropped).jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Lord Strathnairn, Liphook
| subject = [[Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn]]
| location = Foley Manor, [[Liphook]], Hampshire
| date = 1895
| type = Equestrian statue on pedestal with panels
| material = Bronze and Portland stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes =  Erected 1895 in London, removed 1931, sold and relocated to Liphook in 1964.<ref name="Beattie"/><ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45909 |title=Knightsbridge Green Area: Scotch Corner and the High Road |author=John Greenacombe |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=2000 |work=Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge |access-date=7 September 2021 }}</ref>
}}
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| image = Beer, Hamilton Macallum memorial - geograph.org.uk - 2262835.jpg
| commonscat = Hamilton Macallum memorial, Beer, Devon
| subject = [[Hamilton Macallum]]
| location =  Sea Hill, [[Beer, Devon]]
| date = c. 1896
| type = Plaque with seating surround
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = Second plaque and barometer to rear<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/hamilton-maccallum-18411896-308120/search/actor:ford-edward-onslow-18521901/page/2|title= Hamilton MacCallum (1841–1896)|website=[[Art UK]]|access-date=12 September 2021}}</ref>
}}
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| image = Statue of Ralph Ward Jackson.jpg|thumb|Statue of 
| commonscat = 
| subject = [[Ralph Ward Jackson]]
| location = Church Street, [[Hartlepool]]
| date = 1897
| type = Statue on pedestal with plaques
| material = Bronze and limestone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = Q26542291
| notes =  <ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1250229 |desc= Monument to Ralph Ward Jackson, approximately 34m north-east of Christ Church |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref> 
}}
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| image = Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh statue - Kolkata.JPG
| commonscat = Statue of Maharaja Lakshmishwar Singh of Darbhanga
| subject = [[Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh]] 
| location = [[B.B.D. Bagh]], Kolkata
| date = 1898
| type = Seated statue on pedestal
| material = Marble
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade I
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = Q68455460
| notes = <ref name="Empire"/><ref name="MASteggles">{{cite book|author=Mary Ann Steggles & Richard Barnes|publisher= Frontier Publishing|year=2011|title=British Sculpture in India: New Views & Old Memories |isbn= 9781872914411}}</ref>      
}}
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| image = Statue of T. H. Huxley, Natural History Museum, London.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Thomas Henry Huxley in the Natural History Museum, London
| subject = [[Thomas Henry Huxley]]
| location = [[Natural History Museum, London]]
| date = 1900
| type = Seated statue
| material = Marble
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes =   <ref>{{citation|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/062010a0|title=The Unveiling of the Huxley Memorial| date=3 May 1900|journal=Nature|volume=62 |issue=1592 |pages=10–12 |doi=10.1038/062010a0 |s2cid=4013805 |access-date= 7 September 2021|doi-access=free}}</ref>    
}}
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| image = Henry Fitzalan Howard 01.JPG
| commonscat = 
| subject = [[Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk]]
| location = [[Sheffield Town Hall]] 
| date = 1900
| type = Seated statue on pedestal
| material = Marble
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade I
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = Architect, [[Edward William Mountford]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courtauldprints.com/image/166306/mountford-edward-william-ford-edward-onslow-sheffield-town-hall-statue-of-the-15th-duke-of-norfolk|title=Sheffield Town Hall; Statue of the 15th Duke of Norfolk|website=The Courtauld Gallery|access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|desc=Town Hall, Sheffield|num=1246902|access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>
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{{Public art row
| image = Bronze sarcophagus with angel by Edward Onslow Ford - February 2021.jpg
| commonscat = Clarke Monument, Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath
| subject = Lady Mary & Sir [[Andrew Clarke (British Army officer, born 1824)|Andrew Clarke]] Monument
| location = [[Locksbrook Cemetery]], Bath
| date = 1900
| type = Sarcophagus and base
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{NHLE |num=1395455 |desc= De Clarke Monument|access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref> 
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| image = Queen Victoria statue piccadilly02.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Queen Victoria, Manchester
| subject = Queen Victoria
| location = [[Piccadilly Gardens]], [[Manchester]]
| date = 1901
| type = Seated statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and Portland stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= yes
| wikidata = Q26539302
| notes = <ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1246945 |desc= Queen Victoria Monument |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref> 
}}
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| image = John Ruskin plaque, Westminster Abbey.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = [[John Ruskin]]
| location = [[Poets' Corner]], [[Westminster Abbey]]
| date = 1901
| type = Portrait roundel
| material = Bronze
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= yes
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/john-ruskin|title=John Ruskin|website=Westminster Abbey|access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref> 
}}
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| image = Adam Sedgwick - geograph.org.uk - 1035220.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = [[Adam Sedgwick]]
| location = [[Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences]], Cambridge 
| date = 1901
| type = Statue
| material = 
| dimensions = 
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/adam-sedgewick-17851873-296831/search/actor:ford-edward-onslow-18521901/page/1/view_as/grid|title= Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873)|website=[[Art UK]]|access-date=12 September 2021}}</ref>
}}
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| image = George Grey monument in the Crypt of St. Paul’s, March 2022.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = Memorial to [[George Grey]]
| location = Crypt of [[St. Paul's Cathedral]], London
| date = c. 1901
| type = Bust with plaque & panel
| material = White, red & yellow marble
| dimensions =
| designation = 
| show_wikidata= yes
| wikidata = 
| notes = <ref>{{cite book|author=Jason Edwards, Amy Harris & Greg Sullivan|publisher=Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd |year=2021|title= Monuments of St Paul's Cathedral 1796–1916 |isbn=978-1-78551-360-2}}</ref>  
}}
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| image = Statue of General Gordon - geograph.org.uk - 44414.jpg
| commonscat = 
| subject = General [[Charles George Gordon]] 
| location = [[Gordon's School]], Woking
| date = 1902
| type = Statue of rider and camel on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions = 
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= 
| wikidata = 
| notes = Cast 1902 & erected in Khartoum, relocated to England in 1959 with a new plinth<ref name="JoDarke"/><ref>{{NHLE |num=1424607 |desc= Statue of General Gordon, Gordon's School |accessdate= 7 September 2021}}</ref>          
}}
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===Other works===
[[File:A Bacchante - Edwin Onslow Ford - ABDAG004752.jpg|thumb|141x141px|''A Bacchante'']]
* Processional cross for Saint Matthew's Church, Sheffield<ref name="DArts"/>
* ''The Resurrection of Christ'', c. 1889–1893, [[Saint Albans Cathedral]]<ref name="DArts"/>
* Monument to [[Benjamin Jowett]], 1897, [[Balliol College, Oxford]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courtauldprints.com/image/169127/ford-edward-onslow-university-of-oxford-balliol-college-monument-to-benjamin-jowett|title=University of Oxford, Balliol College; Monument to Benjamin Jowett|website= The Courtauld Gallery|access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>
* Marble pulpit with bronze panels, c. 1888, [[St Mary-le-More, Wallingford]]<ref>{{NHLE |num=1182404 |desc= Church of St Mary le More |accessdate= 10 September 2021}}</ref>
* Statue on pedestal of [[Chamarajendra Wadiyar X]], the [[Maharaja of Mysore]], 1898, [[Lal Bagh]], Bangalore<ref name="Empire"/><ref name="MASteggles"/>
* Bronze statue on pedestal of [[James Davidson Gordon]], c. 1884, Gordon Park, [[Mysore]]<ref name="MASteggles"/>
* ''A Bacchante'' bronze on a black stone base,1899, in Aberdeen Archives Art Gallery and Museum collection

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Edward Onslow Ford}}
*{{Art UK bio}}

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