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Edward Onslow Ford
Early Life and Artistic Beginnings Edward Onslow Ford, born in Islington, London, on July 27th, 1852, emerged into a world poised between Victorian tradition and the burgeoning currents of artistic innovation. His upbringing was one carefully steered towards nurturing an innate talent for art. Though his father was a businessman, it was his mother who recognized and championed his early inclinations, initiating his formal training with
painting studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp around 1870. This initial foray into painting proved pivotal; however, it was a subsequent move to Munich and tutelage under Michael Wagmüller that would fundamentally alter Ford’s artistic trajectory. Wagmüller astutely advised him to transition from painting to modelling, a decision that unlocked his true potential as a sculptor. Before leaving Munich in 1874, a personal…