Leslie Ward
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Sir Leslie Matthew Ward was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Draw
Ward in 1915
"Tommy" Bowles, founder of Vanity Fair, caricatured by Ward in 1889.
Leslie Ward caricatured in 1889 by 'Pal'
Sir Albert Sassoon, 1st Baronet, 1879
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William
Leslie Ward
…Henry Asquith, later Prime Minister, 1904 Guglielmo Marconi, 1905 Admiral Sir Compton Edward Domvile, 1906 Robert Maxwell, 1906 William Ramsay, 1908 Mark Twain, 1908 Nikolay Ignatyev See also Vanity Fair caricatures References Publications Leslie Ward (1915), Forty Years of "Spy", London: Chatto and Windus…
Twain in 1907
Samuel Clemens, age 15 holding metal type in a composing stick that spells out his first name. As a daguerreotype, whose creation involved no intermediate negative, the image is laterally reversed. Hence the type, which, in actuality, was backward, is readable, though Twain himself is flipped.
Twain, age 31
(From l. to r.) American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, Mark Twain and David Gray, editor of the rival Buffalo Courier