John McClure Hamilton (1853-1936) - Portrait of Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) (1893)

Another portrait of the sculptor. Ford is depicted sculpting the plaster model for Applause (1893).

Note: Wikimedia Commons has a colour version of this picture but it's apparently the subject of a copyright dispute with the National Portrait Gallery, London. The black and white version(s) to the best of my knowledge aren't affected by this.

“Who can describe this gentle and amiable man? With the allure of the garçon du Quartier Latin, although I believe he studied only for a short time in Paris, his inner personality was that of a true-born, loyal Briton, with that intense love of home and of family life which is characteristic of the race. He was all his life dominated by two strong affections—love of his family and love of Art; and, as is usual where a man is not single-hearted in his loves, jealousies and conflicts occurred between the rival passions. But he was strong and patient in the depths of a nature that on the surface was so frail and fragile, that it vibrated like the leaves of an aspen at each breath of wind or touch of sunshine.

“He was born to enjoy much, and to suffer much. His life was comparable to the ever-restless seas that pass from buoyancy to calm, and from calm to storm, under the changing moods of mobile skies. We met in early life, and we walked side by side in joy and in sorrow until he died, nearly twenty years ago. He moulded his Follies and his Singers, "little waxen figures," as a "friendly critic" once called them, and I limned my little portraits of big men; and we both were happy at our work and in our homes.”

--John McClure Hamilton, Men I Have Painted, 1921

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Taken in: UK / England / London (show map)

Taken on: October 14, 2015

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