Sir leslie ward biography of rory

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.

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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 a