Leslie Matthew Ward was born on 21 November 1851 in London, where he also died on 15 May 1922. He is regarded as a renowned portrait painter and caricaturist who painted portraits and caricatures in a watercolour style typical of him, which he published mainly under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl" in the British weekly magazine "Vanaty Fair". There his so-called "Spy Portraits" were transformed into chromolithographs, which were reproduced on a better paper and sold separately as prints.
Ward's influence on the genre was extraordinary. He had begun with portraits whose caricatural elements were pronounced: He distorted the physical proportions of his models by making the head and torso much larger. Examples are the portrait of Edward Bickersteth, Dean of Lichfield (1884) and Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1904).
Later his style developed towards so-called "characteristic portraits", which were less caricatures than actual portraits with realistic proportions - such as the portraits of Admiral Sir Compton Edward Domvile (1906) or the Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry Sir William Ramsay (1908).
Leslie Ward's parents Henrietta and Edward Ward were well-known history painters with studios in Borough of Slough and Kensington London. Ward painted caricatures of his teachers and classmates while still at Eton College. Artistic studies followed at the Royal Academy Schools - after that the publications in the "Vanaty Fair" began.
His portraits of ladies and gentlemen of society have always been regarded as sympathetic; he usually made them from memory after observing his "victims" on the racetrack, in church, in the courts, in the university lecture hall or in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament.
Ward published 1325 portraits in "Vanety Fair" - in total his life's work comprised 2 387 published caricatures. In 1918 he was knighted. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward was married and father of a daughter.
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.jpg "Mr Charles Seely, Pigs (Vanity Fair cartoon) by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, Destroyers, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Leo Trevor, Leo, 2 November 1905, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Edward Weatherby, The match-book, 17 October 1901, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Clement King Shorter, Three Editors, 10 December 1894, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Sir Arthur Henry Paget by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Captain Conway Seymour, Despatches, 16 February 1884, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Percy Melville Thornton, Clapham, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "W E Crum, President of the Oxford University Boat Club by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Rosebury, Little Bo-Peep, 14 March 1901, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Colonel Sir Rudolf Carl von Slatin by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Humphrey Sturt, East Dorsetshire, 7 May 1892, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Thring, He has written on companies, 29 June 1893, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Macclesfield by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Samuel Smiles, Self Help by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Albemarle by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr James Thompson, Caledonian Railway, 15 August 1895, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr F E Smith, A Successful First Speech, Moab is my Washpot, 16 January 1907, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Arthur Templeman, A Rising Star, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Frederick Temple, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir J E Millais, 1874 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Leopold de Rothschild, Racing and sporting, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Harold J Tennant, MP, Dangerous Trades, 23 December 1909, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr William Luson Thomas, The Graphics, 13 December 1894, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr W Gardner Sinclair, Beer Budget and Brains, 21 July 1909, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Samuel Ward, Uncle Sam, 10 January 1880, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James E Warden Sewell of New College Oxford, The Shirt, 5 April 1894, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget-Seymour, The Swell of the Ocean, 9 September 1876, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Hubert Burge, the Headmaster of Winchester by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Muzaffer-Ed-Din, The Shah of Persia by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Harry Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Near the Rose, 13 February 1886, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Percy Scawen Wyndham, Aesthetics, 30 October 1880, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "M Jean de Reszke, Polish tenor, 8 August 1891, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Soldier and Correspondent, Colonel Francis William Rhodes DSO, 1899 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, Montgomeryshire, 28 June 1879, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Venerable Frederick William Farrar by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Aga Khan, 10 November 1904, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Nawab Sir Salar Jung, An Indian Statesman, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Kelvin, Scottish Physicist and Mathematician by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Waveney, Suffolk, 2 April 1881, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Right Honourable Arthur Balfour by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir William Henry Wills, Birdseye, 23 November 1893, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer, physician, surgeon and social reformer, 1882 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, The Prince Imperial by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Erasmus Wilson, English surgeon and antiquary, 1880 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Duke of Somerset (Vanity Fair cartoon) by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Edward Stanhope MP, The Young Man, 12 April 1879 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Physicist and Inventor and Pioneer of Wireless Telegraphy by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Bishop of London by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist, c1900s by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "W S Rutherford, the Headmaster of Westminster School, Westminster, 2 March 1889 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Montagu David Scott, East Sussex, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James Selby, Old Times, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr William Dudley Ward, A permanent warrior, 30 May 1901, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Robartes, East Cornwall, 4 February 1882, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Henry F Thynne, younger son, 26 May 1877, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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