Henrietta Ward

Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum


Henrietta has been the Assistant Keeper in the Paintings, Drawings and Prints department at the Fitzwilliam Museum since September 2015. She has a special interest in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, and all things creepy crawly (but only in the painted variety). She is currently putting together a research project around the Museum’s significant collection of flower paintings, botanical drawings, floral miniatures and albums, many of which depict an array of interesting critters.

New month, new flowers: Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Lord Fairhaven’s generous legacy

by and | 01.06.18

The Fitzwilliam Museum has one of the most important collections of botanical art in the world. This is due to the generous bequest of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Lord Fairhaven, who donated his entire collection to the Museum in 1973. This included over a hundred oil paintings including works by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-99) and… Read full article

What’s New? Recent additions to the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam

by , , and | 01.11.17

One of the many exciting and interesting aspects of being a museum curator is the opportunity to enhance and develop the collections by acquiring new works of art. You may have heard about the Fitzwilliam Museum’s intriguing recent acquisition of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s (1824-1904) striking portrait of his brother Claude-Armand, painted around 1848, which involved a significant public fundraising campaign; but… Read full article