Eimer 1862.
55mm. Silver. By T. Brock.
Obverse with bust of Edward VII, reverse with sculpture of body. Edge engraved 'Edmund Thos Wyatt Ware - For A Model Of A Design Containing Figure & Ornament - 1910'.
Nearly Extremely Fine and scarce. Owing to the short reign of Edward VII, The Academy Of Arts award medals featuring his bust are considerably scarcer than those that came before or after.
Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware (29 September 1883–26 July 1960) was a British teacher and sculptor.
He was born in Plaistow in Essex in 1883, the son of Emma and Edmund Labdon Ware, a police constable. Ware studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he received a silver medal and a prize of £5.
He first registered his mark as an independent silversmith in October 1903, and a figural silver spoon crafted by him in 1904 is in the Pear Tree Collection. He taught goldsmithing and jewellery at the Central School of Art and Design (1905-1940). In the 1911 Census he was listed as 'Artist, Sculptor' and his place of employment as 52 Doughty Street in London.
Among others, Ware exhibited his work at: the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1910); the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1913, 1914, 1934, 1935 and 1940), and at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition (1935). In 1940 he took up sculpting as a profession. In 1947 he sculpted the replacement plaque on the front of the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building.
In 1914 in London he married Theodora Margaret Sothern Lancaster (1885-1977), the older sister of the artist Lilian Lancaster (1886-1973). The engagement ring, designed and crafted by Ware in 1912, is displayed in the Jewellery Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Their daughter was the lithographer and enamellist Margaret Reade née Tennant Ware (1916-2006) and their son was John Lancaster Ware (1920-2004).