Onslow Ford

E. Onslow Ford
1893 portrait of Edward Onslow Ford by John McLure Hamilton. The work in progress appears to be Applause, completed in bronze the same year.
Born	(1852-07-27)July 27, 1852 London
Died	23 December 1901(1901-12-23) (aged 49)
Nationality	British
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	New Sculpture
Spouse(s)	Anne Gwendoline von Kreuzer

Edward Onslow Ford RA (27 July 1852, in London – 23 December 1901, in London) was an English sculptor.

Ford was born in Islington, north London on 27 July 1852, was son of London businessman Edward Ford and Martha Lydia Gardner. His family moved to Blackheath while he was still a child. After he had spent some time at Blackheath Proprietary School, his mother determined that he should follow the strong bent towards art which he had already shown. She took him to Antwerp, where she sent him to the Academy as a student of painting. From Antwerp they moved after a time to Munich. There Ford studied under Michael Wagmüller, who advised him to transfer his attention to modelling, which he did. Before leaving Munich, Ford married, in 1873, Anne Gwendoline, the third daughter of Baron Frans von Kreuzer.

On returning to England in about 1874, Ford settled at Blackheath and sent a bust of his wife to the Royal Academy of 1875. Beginning with the statue of Rowland Hill at the Royal Exchange (1881), his more important works include Irving as Hamlet (1883) depicting Henry Irving, in the Guildhall Art Gallery; Gordon (1890), depicting General Gordon mounted on a camel, of which examples are at the Royal Engineers Barracks at Chatham and at the Gordon's School in Woking; the Shelley Memorial in University College, Oxford (1892); the equestrian statue of Lord Strathnaim at Knightsbridge (1895); and the memorial to Queen Victoria at Manchester (1901). The standing statue of William Ewart Gladstone (1894, for the City Liberal Club, London) is to be regarded as one of Ford's better portrait works. Ford's best known statue commissioned in India is that of a Equestrian Statue of Maharaja of Mysore, Chamarajendra Wadiyar X installed in the famous botanical garden Lal Bagh in Bangalore. This was originally located at Curzon Park in Mysore but was relocated in 1894. Only other known statue commissioned in India is of famous philanthropist Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh Bahadur of Darbhanga. This statue is in city of Kolkata, West Bengal.