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 "Fred Rickaby, English Jockey 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 "Nasser-Ed-Din-Shah, HIM The Shah of Persia by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "William Archibald Spooner, British clergyman and educationalist, 1898 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 "The Duke of Somerset (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 "Oliver Lodge, British physicist, 1904 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Chester Square, Canon Fleming, British Clergyman 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 "Henry Bessemer, British Engineer, Inventor and Industrialist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Kelvin, Scottish Physicist and Mathematician by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Zetland, a Gentleman by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Charles Henry Wilson, A Squatter, 24 January 1885, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Colonel Vivian Dering Majendie, Chief Inspector of Explosives, 1892 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "C.U.B.C by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Westmoreland, The affable Earl, 10 November 1883, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "Brocklesby, the Earl of Yarborough 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 "William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903 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 "Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Physicist and Inventor and Pioneer of Wireless Telegraphy by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Gatehouse Rochester, 1925 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 Marquis of Winchester, The premier Marquess, 3 November 1904, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "William Hayes Fisher, British politician, 1900 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "John Everett Millais, RA by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Member for Scotland, Sir Lewis McIver by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Robert Stawell Ball, British Astronomer, Mathematician, Lecturer and Populariser of Science by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Maraj Sir Pertab Sing, Jodhpore, 27 August 1887, 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 Samuel Whitbread, Parliamentary Procedure, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "M Frants Ernest De Bille, the Danish Minister 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 "HM George, King of Greece 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 "Mr. Frank Crisp, 1890 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 "Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, 1919 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "John Hall Gladstone, English Chemist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James Manby Gully, British physician by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Miss Elizabeth Thompson by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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