Sir Leslie Ward
(1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew WardSitter in 9 portraits
Artist associated with 1617 portraits
Leslie Ward was the best known of an international group of artists who worked for Vanity Fair magazine. They produced caricatures of many of the leading characters of the day, including artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, soldiers and scholars. Ward worked under the pseudonym 'Spy'. The son of the painters Edward Mathew and Henrietta Ward, Ward studied at the Royal Academy Schools and began drawing for Vanity Fair in 1873. He worked there for more than forty years, producing more than half of the 2,387 caricatures published.
Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 1245. "Isle of Wight."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 September 1910
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William Speirs Simpson ('Men of the Day. No. 1246. "Science and Invention."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 28 September 1910
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Marshall O. Roberts ('Men of the Day. No. 1267. "Easton Hall."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 February 1911
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Sir John Robinson ('Men of the Day. No. 1280. "Worksop Manor."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 May 1911
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Queen Alexandra ('Our Celebrities. No. 1282. "Her Majesty Queen Alexandra."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 June 1911
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Sir Robert Paterson Houston, 1st Bt ('Our Celebrities. "The Britisher's Friend."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 June 1911
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Henry John Brown ('Men of the Day. No. 1284. "Oil."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 June 1911
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by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 August 1911
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by F. Goedecker, and James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Adriano Cecioni, and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Charles Auguste Loye ('M.D' or Montbard)
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1884
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by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
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by Sir Leslie Ward, and Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1873-1903
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by Sir Leslie Ward, and Carlo Pellegrini, and 'Hay', and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Liborio Prosperi ('Lib')
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1881-1889
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by Sir Leslie Ward, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Liborio Prosperi ('Lib'), and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.'), and Sir John Paget Mellor, 1st Bt
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1881-1890
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by Liborio Prosperi ('Lib'), and Carlo Pellegrini, and Sir Leslie Ward, and 'Hay', and Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1881-1889
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by Sir Leslie Ward, and Godfrey Douglas Giles, and Liborio Prosperi ('Lib'), and Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith (né Duff), 1st Bt ('Cloister', 'C.G.D'), and George Algernon Fothergill, and Cuthbert Bradley, and Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.'), and Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1883-1900
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Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
by Sir Leslie Ward
pencil, early 20th century
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Related People
- Sylvia Leslie (daughter)
- Beatrice Ward (sister)
- Edward Matthew Ward (father)
- Henrietta Mary Ada Ward (mother)
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