“ FORD, EDWARD ONSLOW (1852–1901) , English sculptor, was born in London. He received some education as a painter in Antwerp and as a sculptor in Munich under Professor Wagmüller, but was mainly self-taught. His first contribution to the Royal Academy, in 1875, was a bust of his wife, and in portraiture he may be said to have achieved his greatest success. His busts are always extremely refined and show his sitters at their best. ”

“ He gained the open competition for the statue of Sir Rowland Hill, erected in 1882 outside the Royal Exchange, and followed it in 1883 with “Henry Irving as Hamlet,” now in the Guildhall art gallery. This seated statue, good as it is, was soon surpassed by those of Dr Dale (1898, in the city museum, Birmingham) and Professor Huxley (1900) , but the colossal memorial statue of Queen Victoria (1901) , for Manchester, was less successful. The standing statue of W. E. Gladstone (1894, for the City Liberal Club, London) is to be regarded as one of Ford’s better portrait works. ”

“ Those (in bronze) of his fellow-artists Arthur Hacker (1894) , Briton Riviere and Sir W. Q. Orchardson (1895) , Sir L. Alma Tadema (1896) , Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Sir John Millais (1897) , and of A. J. Balfour are all striking likenesses, and are equalled by that in marble of Sir Frederick Bramwell (for the Royal Institution) and by many more. ”