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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.
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 "Captain John Rushworth Jellicoe by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Rainald Knightley by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Charles Cayzer by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Count Franz Deym by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord John Savile, Rufford Abbey, 15 April 1908, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr William Woodall, Hanley, 15 October 1896, 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 "An Irish Lawyer, from")
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.jpg "Henry Bessemer, British Engineer, Inventor and Industrialist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Marquis of Waterford, The great man of Waterford, 9 August 1879, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Viscount Valentia, Oxford City, 14 September 1899, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Recorder by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr. Hugh Chisholm by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "A German Attaché, Baron Hermann von Eckardstein, German Diplomat by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr. Frank Crisp, 1890 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier 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 "The Right Hon Lord Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, Shuttleworth by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Arthur Loftus Tottenham, Lofty, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Brocklesby, the Earl of Yarborough 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 "The Right Hon Sir John Gordon Sprigg, The Cape, 16 September 1897, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-149559).jpg "Lord Haldon (Piggy Palk) by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Henry Steel, the Leviathan, 27 October 1877, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Colonel William Cornwallis West, Algy, 13 August 1892, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Stair, White Dal, 22 September 1883, 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 "Major Edward James Montagu Stuart-Wortley, Eddie, 26 October 1899 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Union Steamship Sir Francis Henry Evans, British businessman and politician by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Thomas Wrightson, Tariff Reform, 6 May 1908, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Fourth Duke by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr John Laurence Toole, Spelling Bee, 29 July 1876, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Frederick E Smith, No Surrender, 16 January 1907, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "HSH The Duke of Teck, Frank, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "A Diplomatic Cousin Henry White, American Diplomat by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Member for Scotland, Sir Lewis McIver by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_Ward_-_James_Manby_Gully_MD_Hydropathy_Vanity_Fair_Cartoon_(colour_litho)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1015421).jpg "James Manby Gully, MD, Hydropathy, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Plausible by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Patience, a")
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.jpg "The Gatehouse Rochester, 1925 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Little Darling by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Cecil Rhodes, British-born South African, financier, statesman and empire builder 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-958525).jpg "Mr Morgan Howard 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 "Sir Edgar Vincent, Eastern Finance, 20 April 1899, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-979412).jpg "The Marquess of Tullibardine 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 "Brigadier-General Sir Evelyn Wood 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 "Mr Albert George Sandeman, The Bank of England, 12 September 1895, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir John Wolfe-Barr, He has engineered nothing better than his own fortunes, 26 January 1905, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Cabs, 1903 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Arthur Doisy by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Edmund Gosse by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_Ward_-_Caricature_of_an_Oxford_Don_(watercolor_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129588).jpg "Caricature of an Oxford Don by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "JB, John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, Scottish lawyer and politician, 1899 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 "Muzaffer-Ed-Din, The Shah of Persia by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Bishop of Westminster, Westminster, 7 January 1893, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-400718).jpg "Frederick Treves, Freddie, 19 July 1900, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Frederick John William Johnstone by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr John Laird, He Built the Alabama and the Captain, 17 May 1873, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Mill Pellatt 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 "A General Group, Boer War by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr J J Hornby, The Provost of Eton by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Tirah, General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, Scottish Soldier, 1898 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Edgar Sheppard, a great marrier, 24 March 1904, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr. Charles Ernest Tritton, The Norwood Division, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr George Otto Trevelyan, The Competition Wallah, 2 August 1873, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon W F D Smith, Head of the Greatest Publishing House in Christendom, 8 December 1904 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "His Majesty")
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.jpg "Captain John Bastard by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "C.U.B.C by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, 1919 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Harry Verney, Bucks, 15 July 1882, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "North Huntingdonshire, Ailwyn Fellowes, British politician, 1896 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, The King of Wales, 14 June 1873, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Augustine Birrell by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Colonel Charles Napier Sturt, A Younger Son, 25 November 1876, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Ermined Urbanity, 1904 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "John Buchan, 1927 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr F W Warre-Cornish, The Vice-Provost of Eton, The Vice-Provost, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Major-General Sir Francis Grenfell by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Samuel Wilson, A squatter, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Gilbert Parker by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "She, Henry Rider Haggard, British Author, 1887 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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