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Leslie Ward, detail of a watercolour by “Pal,” 1889; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Sir William Huggins H. Rider Haggard, caricature by “Spy” (pseudonym of Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair, 1905. Randall Thomas Davidson, detail from a portrait by Sir Leslie Ward, 1910; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Leslie Ward, detail of a watercolour by “Pal,” 1889; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leslie Ward, detail of a watercolour by “Pal,” 1889; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Sir Leslie Ward

British caricaturist
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Spy
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November 21, 1851, London, England
Died:
May 15, 1922, London (aged 70)
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Sir Leslie Ward (born November 21, 1851, London, England—died May 15, 1922, London) was an English caricaturist noted for his portraits of the prominent people of his day in the pages of Vanity Fair.

Sir William Huggins
Sir William HugginsSir William Huggins, caricature by Leslie Ward for Vanity Fair, 1903.

Born into a family of painters, Ward first exhibited his work in 1867 while he was a student at Eton College. After studying architecture briefly, he joined the Royal Academy schools, London, in 1871. The painter Sir John Everett Millais was favourably impressed by Ward’s caricatures and was instrumental in bringing him to the attention of Vanity Fair, which was looking for a new caricaturist. Beginning in 1873 Ward was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair. Over the years he pictured a wide assortment of notables, including politicians, authors, judges, musicians, and generals. Reproduced by lithography, the prints had wide circulation. His recollections, Forty Years of Spy, appeared in 1915. He was knighted in 1918.

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