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.
Ben Tillett; John Ward ('Men of the Day. No. 1129. "Labour Men."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 29 July 1908
NPG D4637
Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce ('Men of the Day. No. 1153. "The Chaplain."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 January 1909
NPG D45467
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 31 January 1909
NPG D45468
Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield ('Men of the Day. No. 1156. "A Dandy."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 27 January 1909
NPG D45470
Sir (James) Clifton Robinson ('Men of the Day. No. 1157. "Electric Traction."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 February 1909
NPG D45471
Frank Shuttleworth ('Men of the Day. No. 1158. "Charlie."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 10 February 1909
NPG D45472
Sir Horace Grece Regnart (né Horatio Grece) ('Men of the Day. No. 1159. "Sir Horace, J. P."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 17 February 1909
NPG D45473
Sir Colin Richard Keppel ('Men of the Day. No. 1161. "Commodore H.M.'s Yachts."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 March 1909
NPG D45475
Sir James Horlick, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 1162. "Malted Milk."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 10 March 1909
NPG D45476
Sir Carl Ferdinand Meyer, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 1163. "C. M."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 17 March 1909
NPG D45477
Sir Theodore Fry, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 1165. "Not a Small Fry."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 31 March 1909
NPG D45479
Sir Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 1166. "The Prince of Prince's"')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 April 1909
NPG D45480
James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde ('Men of the Day. No. 1168. "Jim."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 April 1909
NPG D45482
Walter Bulkeley Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington ('Men of the Day. No. 1169. "Lord Barrington."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 28 April 1909
NPG D45483
James Henry Cecil Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands ('Men of the Day. No. 1170. "Jim."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 5 May 1909
NPG D45484
John Reid Walker ('Men of the Day. No. 1171. "John."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 12 May 1909
NPG D45485
Edward George Hemmerde ('Men of the Day. No. 1172. "The New Recorder."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 19 May 1909
NPG D45486
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 26 May 1909
NPG D45487
The Hon. Robert Garnett Tatlow ('Men of the Day. No. 1176. "Finance and Fruit."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 June 1909
NPG D45490
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 23 June 1909
NPG D45491
Alfred James Curnick ('Men of the Day. No. 1178. "Alfred."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 June 1909
NPG D45492
Baron George de Reuter (Men of the Day. No. 1179. "The Wicked Baron."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 July 1909
NPG D45493
Sir John Irving Courtenay ('Men of the Day. No. 1180. "A City Liberal."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 July 1909
NPG D45494
William Gardner Sinclair ('Men of the Day. No. 1181. "Beer, Budget & Brains."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 July 1909
NPG D45495
Alexander John Forbes-Leith ('Men of the Day. No. 1183. "Fyvie."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 4 August 1909
NPG D45497
(Thomas) Malcolm Kincaid-Smith ('Men of the Day. No. 1185. "National Military Training."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 18 August 1909
NPG D45499
James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy ('Men of the Day. No. 1186. "The Rt. Hon. James."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 25 August 1909
NPG D45500
Frank Wootton ('Men of the Day. No. 1188. "Frank Wootton."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 8 September 1909
NPG D45502
Raymond Blathwayt ('Men of the Day. No. 1190. "A Good Listener."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 September 1909
NPG D45506
Sir John Jackson ('Men of the Day. No. 1191. "Docks and Harbours."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 29 September 1909
NPG D45508
John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton ('Men of the Day. No. 1196. "The Private Secretary."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fairn 27 October 1909
NPG D45516
Harold John ('Jack') Tennant ('Men of the Day. No. 1204. "Dangerous Trades."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 23 December 1909
NPG D45529
(Frederick) Leverton Harris ('Men of the Day. No. 1206. "Leverton."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 December 1909
NPG D45531
Douglas Vickers ('Men of the Day. No. 1207. "Brightside D. V."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 December 1909
NPG D45532
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Sir Leslie Ward, printed by Gilbert Whitehead & Co Ltd
chromolithograph, published 1 February 1910
NPG D42728
Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise ('Men of theDay. No. 1216. "Borstal System"')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 10 February 1910
NPG D45542
Sir Philip Watts ('Men of the Day. No. 1224. "Naval Construction."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 April 1910
NPG D45551
Dame Christabel Pankhurst ('A Woman of the Day. "Women's Suffrage."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 15 June 1910
NPG D45561
Alfred William Cox ('Men of the Day. No. 1234. "Fairie."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 29 June 1910
NPG D45563
Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore ('Men of the Day. No. 1243. "An Irish Landowner."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 31 August 1910
NPG D45572
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
NPG D45575
William Speirs Simpson ('Men of the Day. No. 1246. "Science and Invention."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 28 September 1910
NPG D45576
Marshall O. Roberts ('Men of the Day. No. 1267. "Easton Hall."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 February 1911
NPG D45597
Sir John Robinson ('Men of the Day. No. 1280. "Worksop Manor."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 May 1911
NPG D45610
Queen Alexandra ('Our Celebrities. No. 1282. "Her Majesty Queen Alexandra."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 June 1911
NPG D45612
Sir Robert Paterson Houston, 1st Bt ('Our Celebrities. "The Britisher's Friend."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 June 1911
NPG D45613
Henry John Brown ('Men of the Day. No. 1284. "Oil."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 June 1911
NPG D45614
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
NPG D39294
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
NPG D39292
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
NPG D39293
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
NPG D39295
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
NPG D39297
Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
by Sir Leslie Ward
pencil, early 20th century
NPG D9880
Related People
- Sylvia Leslie (daughter)
- Beatrice Ward (sister)
- Edward Matthew Ward (father)
- Henrietta Mary Ada Ward (mother)
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