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Leslie Matthew Ward

Leslie Matthew Ward

    November 21, 1851   -   May 15, 1922
Caricatures, Comics   •   Wikipedia: Leslie Matthew Ward

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

    November 21, 1851   -   May 15, 1922
Caricatures, Comics   •   Wikipedia: Leslie Matthew Ward Leslie Matthew Ward

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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Captain John Rushworth Jellicoe
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Sir Rainald Knightley
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Count Franz Deym
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Sir John Bennett
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The Fourth Duke, 1877
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Fred Rickaby, English jockey 1901.
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Mr Frank Crisp, 1890
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The Recorder, 1903.
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Mr George Granville Leveson-Gower
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Sir Samuel Wilson, A squatter, 2...
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Mr Henry Steel, the Leviathan, 2...
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Mr William Wither Bramston Beach
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The Marquis of Waterford, The gr...
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Major-General H D Hutchinson
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Mr Charles Ernest Tritton, The N...
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Mr. Hugh Chisholm, 1911
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Bobby, 1902
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His Majesty the King, 1902
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Mr F E Smith, A Successful First...
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The Right Hon Sir John Gordon Sp...
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Colonel William Cornwallis West,...
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Sir William Tindal Robertson, Br...
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Samuel Smith, Sammy, 4 August 19...
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Cabs, 1903.
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The Earl of Stair, White Dal, 22...
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Mr John O'Connor Power
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Professor Sir Richard Owen, FRS,...
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Union Steamship Sir Francis Henr...
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Sir Thomas Wrightson, Tariff Ref...
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Lord Tweedmouth, A late whip, 12...
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Mr Leopold de Rothschild, Racing...
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James Manby Gully, MD, Hydropath...
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Plausible, 1902.
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A General Group, Boer War
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Little Darling, 1897.
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Mr Arthur Loftus Tottenham, Loft...
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Mr Morgan Howard (colour litho)
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Lord Haldon (Piggy Palk)
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Sir Edmund Gosse, 1927
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Mr Samuel Ward, Uncle Sam, 10 Ja...
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Sir James Taylor Ingham
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Mr William Dudley Ward, A perman...
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Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, c1910
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