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Early YearsHe was born in Urbana, Ohio, a city that had been founded by his grandfather Col. William Ward, and went to live with his sister in Brooklyn, New York, where he trained under the well-established sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, who carved "J.Q.A. Ward, asst." on his equestrian monument of George Washington in Union Square. Ward went to Washington in 1857, where he made a name with portrait busts of men in public life. In 1861 he worked for the Ames Sword Company, providing models for decorative objects including gilt-bronze sword hilts for the Union Army. Ames also was one of the largest brass, bronze and iron foundries in the US.
CareerSeveral of his sculptures are in Central Park, New York City: Indian Hunter (1864) which was shown at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 and made his reputation, the Seventh Regiment Memorial (1874) and The Pilgrim (1884), near East 72nd Street.
Nineteenth-century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation. Sculptors also made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works; Ward made use of new galvanoplastic duplicating techniques many of Ward's reductions and galvanoplastic and die-stamped relief panels survive. Image:Federal hall.jpg The statue of George Washington (1882) in front of Federal Hall, New York. In 1903, with the collaboration of Paul Wayland Bartlett, he made the models for the marble pediment sculptures for the New York Stock Exchange. The pediment was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Ward was a founder and president of the National Sculpture Society (1893–1904) and president of the National Academy of Design (1874). Trivia
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