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 "Sir Samuel Wilson, A squatter, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak 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 "Mr Markham Spofforth, the demon bowler, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Our Eastern Policy, 12 July 1873, 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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.jpg "M Jan Van Beers, The Modern Wiertz, 12 September 1891, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "Mr William Bromley-Davenport 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 "The Recorder 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 "Sir George Russell, Wokingham, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "The Hon Edward Stanhope MP, The Young Man, 12 April 1879 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Charles Thurston Fogg-Elliot 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 "The Lord Mayor, 1902 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 Fourth Duke by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Admiral Lord Walter Talbot Kerr by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Albert I, Prince of Monaco 1848-1922, amateur oceanographer by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Justin McCarthy by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Baron Hermann von Eckardstein by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "His Majesty the King 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 "Sir Edward Baldwin Malet 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 "The Honourable William Lowther by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Richard Wagner, Music of the Future, 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 "Lord Tweedmouth, A late whip, 12 July 1894, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Douglas Vickers, Brightside DV, 30 December 1909, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "Mr Tom Taylor, Punch, 11 March 1876, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir John Christopher Willoughby, High Princes, 6 September 1884 (Vanity Fair cartoon) 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 "William Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Ripon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Erasmus Wilson, The Obelisk, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Henry Bessemer, British Engineer, Inventor and Industrialist 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 "The Right Hon Lord Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, Shuttleworth by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Edmond Warre, The Head, 20 June 1885, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Plausible by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Charles Thurston Fogg-Elliot by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, Dear old Ben, 18 June 1887, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Frank Stanley Jackson by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim 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 "Mr Edward Blake by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Warkworth, South Kensington, 2 September 1897, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Robinson Ellis by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Right Hon Lord Houghton 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 F W Warre-Cornish, The Vice-Provost of Eton, The Vice-Provost, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Selkirk, Created in 1646, 20 May 1882, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir John Bennett 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 "H J Brown by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Albert H Charles of Monaco, The Prince of Monaco 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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.jpg "Sir Tatton Sykes, Fifteen churches, 23 August 1879, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "A General Group, Boer War 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 "Mr P T Barnum by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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