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Henry Justice Ford was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.

After education at Repton School and Clare College, Cambridge - where he gained a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1882 - Ford returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and later, at the Bushey School of Art, under the German-born Hubert von Herkomer.

In 1892, Ford began exhibiting paintings of historical subjects and landscapes at the Royal Academy of Art exhibitions. However it was his illustrations for such books as The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Longmans 1898), Kenilworth (TC & EC Jack 1900), and A School History of England by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling (Clarendon Press 1911) that provided Ford with both income and fame.

His parents were Katherine Mary Justice and William Augustus Ford; his paternal grandfather was George Samuel Ford, a well known bill discounter. His father (a solicitor by profession) and many of his family were cricketers. His father wrote a number of articles and books on the subject, and Ford's brother, Francis Ford (1866-1940), played for England in an Ashes series in Australia.

At the age of 61, Ford surprised his friends by marrying a woman some thirty-five years younger. She was Emily Amelia Hoff (née Rose), a widow whose first husband had been killed in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915. Following the marriage in Kensington Register Office in February 1921, Henry and Emily Ford settled down in Bedford Gardens, Kensington for several years and, in 1927, the couple adopted a child, June Mary Magdelene Ford. The seated model in Henry Justice Ford's painting 'Remembering Happier Things', now in the collection of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, bears a strong resemblance to Ford's wife, Emily.

In Collection: Illustrations to Shakespeare (View all 1404)

Midsummer night’s dream, Puck

Midsummer night’s dream, Puck (19th century)

William Francis Starling (English, active 1833 - 1845)
As you like it, Orlando & Adam, act II, scene vi

As you like it, Orlando & Adam, act II, scene vi (19th century)

William Francis Starling (English, active 1833 - 1845)
Comedy of errors, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio, Courtezan, &c., act IV, scene IV

Comedy of errors, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio, Courtezan, &c., act IV, scene IV (19th century)

William Francis Starling (English, active 1833 - 1845)
Illustration to Shakespeare

Illustration to Shakespeare

John Massey Wright (English, 1777–1866)
Scenes from Macbeth and King Henry VI, pt. 2

Scenes from Macbeth and King Henry VI, pt. 2

John Massey Wright (English, 1777–1866)
Scenes from Romeo and Juliet

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet

John Massey Wright (English, 1777–1866)
Macbeth, act 5, scene 1

Macbeth, act 5, scene 1 (19th century)

William Francis Starling (English, active 1833 - 1845)
The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it pays itself, Macbeth, act 1, [scene 4]

The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it pays itself, Macbeth, act 1, [scene 4] (1898)

Pamela Colman Smith (English, 1878 – 1951)
Merry wives of Windsor, V, 5, Falstaff and the fairies at the oak

Merry wives of Windsor, V, 5, Falstaff and the fairies at the oak

Edward Bird (English, 1772-1819)
Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, act I, scene II

Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, act I, scene II (19th century)

William Francis Starling (English, active 1833 - 1845)
Illustrations to Shakespeare Pl.028

Illustrations to Shakespeare Pl.028 (19th century)

John Massey Wright (English, 1777–1866)
Edwin Booth as Iago

Edwin Booth as Iago (1911)

Voltaire Combe
A Midsummer night’s dream; Moth

A Midsummer night’s dream; Moth (1895)

Walford Graham Robertson (English, 1866-1948)
Tybalt’s duel

Tybalt’s duel (1917-1918)

Louis Rhead (American, 1857-1926)
Much ado about nothing, II, 3, as acted at His Majesty’s Theatre

Much ado about nothing, II, 3, as acted at His Majesty’s Theatre (1905)

Charles Buchel (English, 1872–1950)
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