Herbert Ward
British artist and explorer (1863-1919) · Artists · Died at 56
Herbert Ward was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer, and explorer in Africa. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. Ward later became a sculptor and lived in France.
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Herbert Ward, c. 1889
Ward in the Congo, c. 1886
Herbert Ward (left) and Roger Casement, c. 1886
Le Chef de Tribu, Ward's Salon gold medal-winning sculpture of 1908, in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren
Herbert Ward in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre, c. 1916
The Idol Maker in the Royal Museum for Central Africa
Edward J. Glave, W. G. Parminter, Herbert Ward and Roger Casement (from left to right) - photograph by Henry Van der Weyde from A Voice from the Congo (1910)Awards
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He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
