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 "Albert I, Prince of Monaco 1848-1922, amateur oceanographer by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "East Sussex, Colonel Brookfield, British soldier and politician, 1898 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Kelvin, Scottish Physicist and Mathematician by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Prince Ranjitsinghi, Spy cartoon, pub. by Vincent Brookes Day & Son 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 "Oxford Cricket, 1889 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Rousseau, the Duke of Bedford by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Lobster, 1902 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 "James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl Crawford and Balcarres by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Richard Owen, British zoologist by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Ernest Terah Hooley, British Financier by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "H A C, the Earl of Denbigh, 1894 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 "Plum, 1903 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Serlby by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "His Majesty the King by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr. Frank Crisp, 1890 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 "William Hayes Fisher, British politician, 1900 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 "Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Physicist and Inventor and Pioneer of Wireless Telegraphy by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "William Huggins, British Astronomer and Spectroscopist 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 "Frank Hedges Butler, Illustration from Vanity Fair by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Erasmus Wilson, English surgeon and antiquary, 1880 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "A Diplomatic Cousin Henry White, American Diplomat by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Ranji by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Recorder by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr. Hugh Chisholm by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "She, Henry Rider Haggard, British Author, 1887 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Yorkshire Cricket 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 "Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "James Manby Gully, British physician 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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