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C1879
Men of the Day, No. 66. “Adjutant-General of the Forces”
Artist:
Spy Leslie Ward
Sir R. Airey. General in the British Army, served in the Crimean War.From 1865 to 1870 he was Governor of Gibraltar, receiving a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1867. In 1870 he became Adjutant-General … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Men of the Day, No. 66. “Adjutant-General of the Forces”
Date:
C1879
Artist:
Spy Leslie Ward
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Original colour lithograph.
Image Size:
188mm
x 318mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1879
Description:
Sir R. Airey. General in the British Army, served in the Crimean War.From 1865 to 1870 he was Governor of Gibraltar, receiving a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1867. In 1870 he became Adjutant-General to the Forces at headquarters, and the following year the full rank of general.
Artist:
Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922)
Ward was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who over four decades painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published byVanity Fair, under the pseudonyms
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.
