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Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941); 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.
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 , Kenilworth, and A School History of England by C.R.L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling that provided Ford with both income and fame.
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.
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 love of the game led Henry Justice Ford to play cricket regularly with the playwright JM 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.
...At the age of 61, Ford surprised his friends by marrying a woman some 35 years younger. She was Emily Amelia Hoff (née Rose), a widow.... The seated model in Henry Justice Ford's painting Remembering Happier Times, bears a strong resemblance to Ford's wife, Emily.
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