Leslie Matthew Ward was born on November 21, 1851 in London, where he died on May 15, 1922. He is considered a renowned portrait painter and caricaturist, who made portraits and caricatures in a typical watercolor painting, which he published mainly under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl" in the British weekly magazine "Vanaty Fair". There, his so-called "spy portraits" were converted into chromolithographies, which were reproduced on a better paper and sold separately as prints.
Ward's influence on the genre was extraordinary. He began with portraits whose caricatural elements were pronounced: he distorted the physical proportions of his models by making his head and torso much larger. Examples are the portrait of Edward Bickersteth, Dean of Lichfield (1884) and the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1904). Later, his style developed into 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 laureate of 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. While still a student at Eton College, Ward made caricatures of his teachers and classmates. Artistic studies followed at the Royal Academy Schools - then the publications began in the "Vanaty Fair".
His portraits of ladies and gentlemen of society were always sympathetic; he made them mostly from memory, after he had watched his "victims" on the racetrack, in the church, in the courts, in the university lecture hall or in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament.
Ward published 1325 portraits at "Vanety Fair" - in total, his life's work included 2,387 published cartoons. In 1918 he was knighted. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward was married and father of a daughter.
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.jpg "Mr John Laurence Toole, Spelling Bee, 29 July 1876, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Sir John Christopher Willoughby, High Princes, 6 September 1884, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr William McCullagh Torrens, Finsbury, 8 December 1883, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr W Hall Walker MP, A lucky owner, 21 June 1906, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Colonel Frank Shuttleworth, Charlie, 10 February 1909, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Duke of Somerset, An old fashioned Duke, 27 April 1893, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Sir Richard Temple, Bart, Burra Dick, 15 January 1881, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr James Thompson, Caledonian Railway, 15 August 1895, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Right Hon Sir John Gordon Sprigg, The Cape, 16 September 1897, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Sir William Henry Wills, Birdseye, 23 November 1893, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr Henry Steel, the Leviathan, 27 October 1877, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr W Gardner Sinclair, Beer Budget and Brains, 21 July 1909, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "General Sir George Stuart White, Ladysmith, 14 June 1900, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Marquis of Tullibardine, Scottish Horse, 23 March 1905, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Lord Warkworth, South Kensington, 2 September 1897, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr William Luson Thomas, The Graphics, 13 December 1894, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Harry W Stevenson, He might be champion if there were a championship, 25 May 1905, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "General Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, Dear old Ben, 18 June 1887, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Earl of Yarborough, Brocklesby, 2 January 1896, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Earl of Stair, White Dal, 22 September 1883, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "The Marquis of Winchester, The premier Marquess, 3 November 1904, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Mr Charles Ernest Tritton, The Norwood Division, 6 May 1897, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
