"Sketches of James Ward, R. A., and James Ward's Mother" by Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922)

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The Marquis of Salisbury

Leslie Ward ('Spy')

June 1902

Watercolour

12.1 cm by 10.2 cm (4 ¾ by 4 inches), framed.

Leslie Ward's Forty Years of 'Spy' (1915), facing p. 326.

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Commentary from Forty Years of 'Spy'

I conclude I was fortunate with sketches of the late Lord Salisbury, as a lady, a great friend of his, said that a grease paint picture I made of him, in Cyril Maude's dressing-room at the Haymarket Theatre, was quite the best she had ever seen of that distinguished statesman. In 1902, I made another, after watching him again in the House of Lords. It happened to be on the easel one day when Lord Redesdale came to my studio, and he, being struck with it, complimented me by asking if I would part with it, so that the original is now in his possession, and by his permission is reproduced in this book. [326]

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Bibliography

Ward, Leslie ['Spy']. Forty Years of 'Spy'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.

Created 26 July 2005