Louise Ward

Louise Ward, sometimes rendered Louise de Ward (9 July 1849 – 11 February 1930), Burke's Peerage of 1850 and thereafter indicates that her birth name was Elizabeth Margaret Ward.

She was an Austrian baroness who was the daughter of Baron Thomas Ward and his wife Louise Genthner, a Viennese commoner whom Thomas Ward had married in 1832.

She was educated in a convent school in France. or "Louise du Bréau", in the department of Yvelines.

Two of her best-known paintings are The Old Lodger (1877), which was exhibited at the Salon de 1877 and Printemps (1882), which was exhibited at the Salon de 1882.

Her painting Chanteuse des rues (Street Singer) was exhibited at the Salon de 1878. Ward's Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) was exhibited at the Salon de 1879,

Ward's portrait of her husband, the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, was exhibited at the Salon de 1881. Her portrait of Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust was widely praised and was exhibited at the Salon de 1883.

In Paris, Ward became a society belle (mondaine) and a grande dame, on her. or Yolande Dalbert.

In 1896, Ward remarried, to French aristocrat and Olympic equestrian Count Jacques de Waru (1865–1911). his family had been close to the French monarchy since its restoration in 1804, and his grandfather, Adolphe, had made a personal fortune in banking and served as a regent of the Banque de France from 1856 to 1871.

Ward died in Paris in February 1930, at the age of 80.

Notable works Ne dine jamais en ville [Never dine out] (known in English as The Old Lodger) (1877) Marchand de marrons [Chestnut Seller] (1880) Printemps (1882) Portrait of Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1882)

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