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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 "Mr Charles Cox by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Captain John Rushworth Jellicoe by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-979413).jpg "Mr Ernest Cassel by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Edward Richard Henry, British Inventor of Finger Printing by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "John Holms by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "She, Henry Rider Haggard, British Author, 1887 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_Ward_-_Sir_William_Tindal_Robertson_Brighton_Vanity_Fair_cartoon_(colour_litho)_-_(MeisterDrucke-940064).jpg "Sir William Tindal Robertson, Brighton, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Edward Brydges-Willyams by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Thomas Colleton Garth by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Maurice Fitzgerald, The Knight of Kerry by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sherlock Holmes, Cartoon from Vanity Fair of the Actor William Gillette by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James Staats Forbes,")
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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 "A German Attaché, Baron Hermann von Eckardstein, German Diplomat 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 Earl of Portsmouth by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Frank Hedges Butler, Illustration from Vanity Fair 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 "Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist, c1900s 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 "The Right Hon Edward Gibson 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 Oswald Mosley by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Albert Abdallah David Sassoon, The Indian Rothschild, 16 August 1879, Vanity Fair Cartoon 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 "Cecil Rhodes, British-born South African, financier, statesman and empire builder 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 "A General Group, Boer War by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Zetland, a Gentleman by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Ranji by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Marquis of Tullibardine, Scottish Horse, 23 March 1905, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "A Scots Lawyer, from")
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.jpg "Mr John Stuart Mill by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mrs Georgina Weldon, Mrs Weldon, 3 May 1884, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Mill Pellatt by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Iconoclast 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 "Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Marquis of Winchester, The premier Marquess, 3 November 1904, 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 "Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898 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 "Mr Walter Durnford 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 "Mr John Lawson Walton, 6 March 1902, 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 "Viscount Valentia, Oxford City, 14 September 1899, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "Mr George Frederick Watts, He Paints Portraits and Ideas, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Baron George de Reuter by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Ernest Satow, Peking, 23 April 1903, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Fourth Duke 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 "Sir Edward Baldwin Malet by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Garter, 19 December 1901, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "Fred Rickaby, English Jockey 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 Frederick E Smith, No Surrender, 16 January 1907, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Walter Lionel Rothschild 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 "Walter S Buckmaster by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James Woodburn, 21 June 1890, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Edward Hare Pickersgill 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 "Frank Wooton, 8 September 1909, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "A Sporting Lawyer, from")
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.jpg "Mr Alexander Meyrick Broadley 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 "Sir John Christopher Willoughby, High Princes, 6 September 1884 (Vanity Fair cartoon) by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr John Walter, The Times, 10 September 1881 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-979412).jpg "The Marquess of Tullibardine by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Croucher 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-149559).jpg "Lord Haldon (Piggy Palk) 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-400718).jpg "Frederick Treves, Freddie, 19 July 1900, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr W Guy Granet 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 "Mr Arthur de Rothschild by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Heads of the Law, 1902 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Count Franz Deym by Leslie Matthew Ward")
.jpg "Sir Charles Cayzer by Leslie Matthew Ward")