Henry Justice Ford

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Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and

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.

Hobbies

His love of the game led Henry Justice Ford to play cricket regularly with the playwright J. M. Barrie's Allahakbarrie Cricket Club. This in turn led to Ford providing the well-known map of Kensington Gardens in Barrie's The Little White Bird. He also designed the costume for the character of Peter Pan when Barrie's play was staged in the West End for the first time in 1904. Ford's wide-ranging interests brought him into contact and friendship with many well-known figures of his time, including the writers P. G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and A. E. W. Mason.

Gallery

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  Allerleirauh. The Green Fairy Book. (1892)
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  The Snow Queen takes Kay in her sledge. The Pink Fairy Book. (1897)
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  What Came of Picking Jessamine. The Grey Fairy Book. (1900)
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  Morgan Casts Away Excalibur's Scabbard. King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table. (1902)
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  Listen listen, said the Mermaid to the Prince. The Brown Fairy Book. (1904)
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  The End of the Dragon. The Red Romance Book. (1905)
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  How the Fairies came to see Ogier the Dane. The Red Romance Book. (1905)
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  Mozart

  . The Book of Princes and Princesses. (1908)
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  Indians. The Strange Story Book. (1913)
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  The Chariot of Freya. Tales of Romance. (1919)
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  Arthur meets the Lady of the Lake and gets the Sword Excalibur. Tales of Romance. (1919)

References

Further reading

• Hares-Stryker, Caroline (2009). "Doing Justice to Henry: a biographical study of Henry Justice Ford". Studies in Illustration. 43 (Winter). Imaginative Book Illustration Society.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Justice Ford.

• Heiner, Heidi Anne (10 October 2007). "SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Illustrations of Henry J. Ford". Archived from the original on 3 May 2020.
• Works by Henry Justice Ford at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Henry Justice Ford (illustrator) at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Henry Justice Ford at Internet Archive
• Works by Henry Justice Ford at Toronto Public Library
• H. J. Ford at Library of Congress, with 38 library catalogue records