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 William Crookes, English physicist and chemist, c1900s 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 "Lord Kelvin, Scottish Physicist and Mathematician 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 "Edward Richard Henry, British Inventor of Finger Printing 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 "Mr Markham Spofforth, the demon bowler, 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 "Maurice Fitzgerald, The Knight of Kerry by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, Sheffield, 11 September 1886, 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 "Lord Tollemache, Cheshire, 30 April 1881, Vanity Fair Cartoon 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 "Frank Hedges Butler, Illustration from Vanity Fair 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 "Mr Samuel Ward, Uncle Sam, 10 January 1880, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Ranji 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 Frederick E Smith, No Surrender, 16 January 1907, 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 "William Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Ripon 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 "The Rev Edmond Warre, The Head, 20 June 1885, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr C M Wells, Father, 10 July 1907, 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 Ernest Satow, Peking, 23 April 1903, Vanity Fair cartoon 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 "James Woodburn, 21 June 1890, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Maurice Fitzgerald, The Knight of Kerry by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Edward Brydges-Willyams by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Oliver Lodge, British physicist, 1904 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 "HSH The Duke of Teck, Frank, Vanity Fair Cartoon 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 "The Right Hon Sir George Mellish 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 John Lawson Johnston by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Leven and Melville 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 "Major Edward James Montagu Stuart-Wortley, Eddie, 26 October 1899 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Joseph Fletcher Green 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 Stair, White Dal, 22 September 1883, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Iconoclast by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Clarendon 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 "The Marquis of Winchester, The premier Marquess, 3 November 1904, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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