Sir Leslie Mathew Ward
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1, portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl". The portraits were produced as watercolours and turned into chromolithographs for publication in the magazine. These were then usually reproduced on better paper and sold as prints. Such was his influence in the genre that all Vanity Fair caricatures are sometimes referred to as "Spy cartoons" regardless of who the artist actually was.
Early portraits, almost always full-length (judges at the bench being the main exception), had a stronger element of caricature and usually distorted the proportions of the body, with a very large head and upper body supported on much smaller lower parts. Later, as he became socially accepted in the society in which he moved to gain access to his subjects, and not wishing to cause offence, his style developed into what he called "characteristic portraits", being less of a caricature and more of an actual portrait of the subject, using realistic body proportions.
Ward was one of eight children of artists Edward Matthew Ward a
Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (21 November –15 May ) was the highly perceptive caricaturist "Spy," a British artist who over forty years painted some 1, portraits which were regularly featured in the magazine Vanity Fair. He was born into an artistic family: his parents were Henrietta Ward and Edward Matthew Ward, but after leaving Eton he was articled to the architect Sydney Smirke, in an effort to place him in a more predictably rewarding career. Fortunately for posterity, the effort failed:
Leslie's reluctance to continue studying architecture led to aconfrontation with his father in which was resolved through theintervention of W. P. Frith and Frith’s subsequent offer to apprenticethe young Ward. Two years later another artist and friend of the family, John Millais, submitted some of Ward’s sketches to Thomas Gibson Bowles who, in early , was searching for a caricaturist to replace Pellegrini after one of Pellegrini’s many departures. Bowles wasfavourably impressed with Ward’s work and hired him. On 1 March, Leslie Ward’s first caricature, "Old Bones," Dr Richard Owen,zoologist and superintendent of the natural history department of theBritish Museum, appeared in Vanity Fair. Wa
Sir Leslie Ward
Gilbert & Sullivan: Framed Pair of 19th C. Vanity Fair Portraits
By Sir Leslie Ward
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This is a pair of Vanity Fair color chromolithograph caricatures of the famous and beloved English musical composers and playwrights Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir Leslie Ward (Spy) () and Carlo Pellegini (Ape) (). The portrait of Arthur Sullivan entitled "English Music" was published in Vanity Fair on March 14, and W. S. Gilbert entitled "Patience" was published in the Men of the Day portion of Vanity Fair on May 21, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan () is regarded as the finest British composer of the 19th century. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan composed 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. The best known of his hymns and songs include "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord". Sir William Schwenck (WS) Gilbert () was an English d
Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Who's Who of British Engineers published by Simon Books of Surbiton
This is an index to the 2,+ persons included in the volume. Details of these persons with their careers up to are included in the printed volume.
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- ABBEY, Derek Michael.
- ABBOTT, Jack.
- ACTON, Eric William Vickers.
- ADAMS, John David.
- ADAMS, Peter John.
- ADAMSON, Stewart Marr.
- ADDINGTON-SMITH, Thomas Basil.
- AGAR, Alan W.
- AIKMAN, James.
- AINLEY, David Geoffrey.
- AIRD, John Sir.
- AIREY, John Alan.
- AITCHISON, Colin Stuart.
- AL NAIB, Shafik.
- ALEKSANDER, Igor.
- ALEXANDER, John Malcolm.
- ALLEN, David Christopher.
- ALLEN, David H. O.
- ALLEN, Harold Norman Gwynne, CBE.
- ALLEN, Howard Godfrey.
- ALLEN, John iston.
- ALLEN, Leslie Leonard OBE.
- ALLEN, Leslie.
- ALLEN, Richard Gordon, DFC.
- ALLEN, Robert William.
- ALLERY, George David.
- ALSTEAD, Robert Malcolm.
- ALVEY, John.
- AMANET, Albert Victor.
- ANCHOR, Robert Dudley.
- ANDERSON, Alastair William. TD.
- ANDERSON, Colin.
- ANDERSON, James Robert.
- ANDERSON, Robert John.
- ANDREWS, Charles Kenneth.
- ANDREWS, Colin Wilfred.
- ANDREWS, Ernest Somers.
- ANDREWS, Peter.
- ANTHONY, Ronald. D.
- ARCHARD, John Frederick.
- AR
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