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 Ernest Tritton, The Norwood Division, Vanity Fair Cartoon 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 "The Hon Mr Justice Straight, The New Judge, 10 May 1879, Vanity Fair Cartoon 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 "Sir Philip John William Miles by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Oliver Lodge, 1927 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr John Laird, He Built the Alabama and the Captain, 17 May 1873, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr P T Barnum 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 "Thomas Beard 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 "Soldier and Correspondent, Colonel Francis William Rhodes DSO, 1899 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Walter George Stirling, two-and-eighty, 26 July 1884, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Benjamin Jowett by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir William Christopher Leng by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir George Clarlyon Hughes Armstrong by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Leopold de Rothschild, Racing and sporting, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Admiral Sir Compton Domvile by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Montague John Guest by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr William McCullagh Torrens, Finsbury, 8 December 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 "W S Rutherford, the Headmaster of Westminster School, Westminster, 2 March 1889 by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Zetland, a Gentleman by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Marquis of Clanricarde by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Arthur Campbell Ainger by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr John Edward Redmond by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Colonel Sir Rudolf Carl von Slatin by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Alington 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 W A Spooner, Spooner, 21 April 1898, 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 "Mr. Augustus Henry Glossop Harris by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Edgar Sheppard, a great marrier, 24 March 1904, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon A Nelson Hood by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Thomas Bayley Potter by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Charles Hawtrey by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Henry Broadhurst by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Earl of Rocksavage by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, The King of Wales, 14 June 1873, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget 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 "General Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, Dear old Ben, 18 June 1887, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "John Lawson Johnston, Scottish-born businessman by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Sydney Holland by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "HSH Prince Demtrey Soltykoff, Prince Soltykoff, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir Edward Bates by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lieut-Colonel Lord Charles John Innes-Ker by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr George Otto Trevelyan, The Competition Wallah, 2 August 1873, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Clement King Shorter, Three Editors, 10 December 1894, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Rev Frederick Temple, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Honourable George Charles Brodrick by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Bishop of Stepney, A Bishop of Decision, 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 "Canon Alfred Ainger 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 William St John Fremantle Brodrick, War, 18 July 1901, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Thrice Champion by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Robert Garnett Tatlow, Glasgow, 16 June 1909, Vanity Fair cartoon by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Samuel Charles Allsopp by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Captain John Thomas North by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "General Ignatieff by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Major-General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden 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 "The Hon Cecil Rhodes by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Mr Thomas Giibson Bowles by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Lord Inverclyde by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Canon James Fleming by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "Viscount Falmouth by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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.jpg "The Hon Sir Walter George Frank Phillimore by Leslie Matthew Ward")
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