John Stanton Ward CBE (10 October 1917 – 13 June 2007) was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator.
With financial support from the Principal, Sir William Rothenstein, he won a place at the Royal College of Art in London in 1936, where he studied under Gilbert Spencer, Barnett Freedman, Percy Horton, Charles Mahoney and Alan Sorrell, winning the prize for drawing.
He served in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War from 1939, and used his drawing skills to design pillboxes in Kent.
He married Alison in 1950, and moved to Bilting Court - a Tudor house near Ashford, Kent - in 1954.
He taught at Wimbledon School of Art, and his volume of work and income expanded as his reputation and connections grew.
Ward's work was exhibited in Tenterden in 1989, jointly with Ernest Greenwood and Ken Howard.