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FORTY YEARS OF 'SPY'
BY
LESLIE WARD
Illustrated
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
CONTENTS CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS page I come into the world.—The story of my ancestry.—My mother.—Wilkie Collins.—The Collins family.—Slough and Upton.—The funeral of the Duchess of Kent.—The marriage of the Princess Royal.—Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.—Their visits to my parents' studios.—The Prince of Wales.—Sir William Ross, R.A.—Westminster Abbey.—My composition.—A visit to Astley's Theatre.—Wilkie Collins and Pigott.—The Panopticon.—The Thames frozen over.—The Comet.—General Sir John Hearsey.—Kent Villa.—My father.—Lady Waterford.—Marcus Stone and Vicat Cole.—The Crystal Palace.—Rev. J. M. Bellew.—Kyrle Bellew.—I go to school.—Wentworth Hope Johnstone. 1 CHAPTER II ETON AND AFTER Eton days.—Windsor Fair.—My Dame.—Fights and Fun.—Boveney Court.—Mr. Hall Say.—Boveney.—Professor and Mrs. Attwell.—I win a useful prize.—Alban Doran.—My father's frescoes.—Battle Abbey.—Gainsborough's Tomb.—Knole.—Our burglar.—Claude Calthrop.—Clayton Calthrop.—The Gardener as Critic.—The Gipsy with an eye for colour.—I attempt sculpture.—The Terry family.—Private theatricals.—Sir John Hare.—Miss Marion Terry.—Miss Ellen Terry.—Miss Kate Terry.—Miss Bateman.—Miss Florence St. John.—Constable.—Sir Howard Vincent.—I dance with Patti.—Lancaster Gate and Meringues.—Prayers and Pantries. 27 CHAPTER III MY FATHER'S FRIENDS My father's friends.—The Pre-Raphaelites.—Plum-box painting.—The Victorians.—The Post-Impressionists.—Maclise.—Sir Edwin Landseer.—Tom Landseer.—Mulready.—Daniel Roberts.—Edward Cooke.—Burgess and Long.—Frith.—Millais.—Stephens and Holman Hunt.—Stanfield.—C. R. Leslie.—Dr. John Doran.—Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall.—The Virtues, James and William.—Mr. and Mrs. Tom Taylor.—A story of Tennyson.—Sam Lover.—Moscheles père et fils.—Philip Calderon.—Sir Theodore and Lady Martin.—Garibaldi.—Lord Crewe.—Fechter.—Joachim and Lord Houghton.—Charles Dickens.—Lord Stanhope.—William Hepworth Dixon.—Sir Charles Dilke. 48 CHAPTER IV WORK AND PLAY School-days ended.—A trip to Paris.—Versailles and the Morgue.—I enter the office of Sydney Smirke, R.A.—Montagu Williams and Christchurch.—A squall.—Frith as arbitrator.—I nearly lose my life.—William Virtue to the rescue.—The Honourable Mrs. Butler Johnson Munro.—I visit Knebworth.—Lord Lytton.—Spiritualism.—My first picture in the Royal Academy.—A Scotch holiday with my friend Richard Dunlop.—Patrick Adam.—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis.—Mr. George Fox and Harry Fox.—Sir William Jaffray.—Mr. William Cobbett.—Adventures on and off a horse.—Peter Graham.—Cruikshank.—Mr. Phené Spiers.—Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Irving.—Fred Walker.—Arthur Sullivan.—Sir Henry de Bathe.—Sir Spencer Ponsonby.—Du Maurier.—Arthur Cecil.—Sir Francis Burnand.—The Bennett Benefit. 67 CHAPTER V SPY My coming of age.—The letter.—The Doctor's verdict.—The Doctor's pretty daughter.—Arthur Sullivan.—"Dolly" Storey.—Lord Leven's garden party.—Professor Owen.—Gibson Bowles.—Arthur Lewis.—Carlo Pellegrini.—Paolo Tosti.—Pagani's.—J. J. Tissot.—Vanity Fair.—Some of the Contributors.—Anthony Trollope.—John Stuart Mill.—The World.—Edmund Yates.—Death of Lord Lytton.—Mr. Macquoid.—Luke Fildes.—Small.—Gregory.—Herkomer.—The Graphic.—Gladstone.—Disraeli, etc. 89 CHAPTER VI CARICATURE Cannot be taught.—Where I stalk.—The ugly man.—The handsome man.—Physical defects.—Warts.—Joachim Liszt and Oliver Cromwell.—Pellegrini, Millais and Whistler.—The characteristic portrait.—Taking notes.—Methods.—Photography.—Tattersall's—Lord Lonsdale.—Lord Rocksavage.—William Gillette.—Mr. Bayard.—The bald man.—The humorous sitter.—Tyler.—Profiles.—Cavalry Officers.—The Queen's uniform.—My subjects' wives.—What they think.—Bribery.—Bradlaugh.—The Prince of Wales.—The tailor story.—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.—Lord Henry Lennox.—Cardinal Newman.—The Rev. Arthur Tooth.—Dr. Spooner.—Comyns Carr.—Pigott.—"Piggy" Palk and "Mr. Spy." 109 CHAPTER VII PORTRAITURE Some of my sitters.—Mrs. Tom Caley.—Lady Leucha Warner.—Lady Loudoun.—Colonel Corbett.—Miss Reiss.—The late Mrs. Harry McCalmont.—The Duke of Hamilton.—Sir W. Jaffray.—The Queen of Spain.—Soldier sitters.—Millais.—Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.—Holman Hunt.—George Richmond.—Sir William Richmond.—Sir Luke Fildes.—Lord Leighton.—Sir Laurence Alma Tadema.—Sir George Reid.—Orchardson.—Pettie.—Frank Dicksee.—Augustus Lumley.—"Archie" Stuart Wortley.—John Varley.—John
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Collier.—Sir Keith Fraser.—Sir Charles Fraser.—Mrs. Langtry.—Mrs. Cornwallis West.—Miss Rousby.—The Prince of Wales.—King George as a boy.—Children's portraits.—Mrs. Weldon.—Christabel Pankhurst. 140 CHAPTER VIII MY CLUBS The Arts Club.—Mrs. Frith's funeral.—The sympathetic waiter.—Swinburne.—Whistler.—Edmund Yates.—The Orleans Club.—Sir George Wombwell.—"Hughie" Drummond.—"Fatty" Coleman.—Lady Meux.—The Prize Fighter and her nephew.—The Curate.—The Theobald's Tiger.—Whistler and his pictures.—Charles Brookfield.—Mrs. Brookfield.—The Lotus Club.—Kate Vaughan.—Nellie Farren.—The Lyric Club.—The Gallery Club.—Some Members.—The Jockey Club Stand.—My plunge on the turf.—The Beefsteak Club.—Toole and Irving.—The Fielding Club.—Archie Wortley.—Charles Keene.—The Amateur Pantomime.—Some of the caste.—Corney Grain.—A night on Ebury Bridge.—The Punch Bowl Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Lord Houghton and the herring. 161 CHAPTER IX THE LAW The Inspiration of the Courts.—Montagu Williams.—Lefroy.—The De Goncourt case.—Irving.—Sir Frank Lockwood.—Dr. Lampson, the poisoner.—Mr. Justice Hawkins.—The Tichborne case.—Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Lush.—The Druce case.—The Countess of Ossington.—The Duke's portrait.—My models.—The Adventuress.—The insolent omnibus conductor.—I win my case.—Sir George Lewis.—The late Lord Grimthorpe.—Sir Charles Hall.—Lord Halsbury.—Sir Alfred Cripps (now Lord Parmoor).—Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy.—Lord Robert Cecil.—The late Sir Albert de Rutzen.—Mr. Charles Gill.—Sir Charles Matthews.—Lord Alverstone.—Mr. Birrell.—Mr. Plowden.—Mr. Marshall Hall.—Mr. H. C. Biron. 194 CHAPTER X THE CHURCH AND THE VARSITIES--PARSONS OF MANY CREEDS AND DENOMINATIONS Dean Wellesley.—Dr. James Sewell.—Canon Ainger.—Lord Torrington.—Dr. Goodford.—Dr. Welldon.—Dr. Walker.—The Van Beers' Supper.—The Bishop of Lichfield.—Rev. R. J. Campbell.—Cardinal Vaughan.—Dr. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.—Dr. Armitage Robinson.—Varsity Athletes.—Etherington-Smith.—John Loraine Baldwin.—Ranjitsinhji.—Mr. Muttlebury.—Mr. "Rudy" Lehmann. 218 CHAPTER XI IN THE LOBBY In the House.—Distinguished soldiers.—The main Lobby.—The Irish Party.—Isaac Butt.—Mr. Mitchell Henry.—Parnell and Dillon.—Gladstone and Disraeli.—Lord Arthur Hill.—Lord Alexander Paget.—Viscount Midleton.—Mr. Seely.—Lord Alington's cartoon.—Chaplains of the "House"—Rev. F. E. C. Byng.—Archdeacon Wilberforce.—The "Fourth Party."—Lord Northbrook and Col. Napier Sturt.—Lord Lytton.—The method of Millais.—Lord Londonderry. 236 CHAPTER XII VOYAGE ON H.M.S. HERCULES Sir Reginald Macdonald's caricature.—H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh's invitation.—The Lively.—The Hercules.—Admiral Sir William Hewitt.—Irish excursions.—The Channel Squadron.—Fishing party at Loch Brine.—The young Princes arrive on the Bacchante.—Cruise to Vigo.—The "Night Alarm."—The Duke as bon voyageur.—Vigo.—The birthday picnic.—A bear-fight on board the Hercules.—Homeward bound.—Good-bye.—The Duke's visit to my studio. 252 CHAPTER XIII YACHTSMEN—FOREIGN RULERS Lord Charles Beresford.—Cowes.—Lady Cardigan.—Chevalier Martino.—Lord Albemarle.—Harry McCalmont.—Royal Sailors.—King Edward VII.—Queen Alexandra.—Prince Louis of Battenberg.—King of Greece.—Foreign Rulers.—The Prince Imperial.—Don Carlos.—General Ignatieff.—Midhat Pasha.—Sir Salar Jung.—Ras Makounan.—Cetewayo.—Shah of Persia.—Viscount Tadasu Hayashi, etc. 268 CHAPTER XIV MUSICIANS—AUTHORS—ACTORS AND ARTISTS Wagner.—Richter.—Dan Godfrey.—Arthur Cecil.—Sir Frederick Bridge and bombs.—W. S. Penley.—Sir Herbert Tree.—Max Beerbohm.—Mr. and Mrs. Kendal.—Henry Kemble.—Sir Edgar Boehm.—George Du Maurier.—Rudyard Kipling.—Alfred Austin.—William Black.—Thomas Hardy.—W. E. Henley.—Egerton Castle.—Samuel Smiles.—Farren.—Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft.—Dion Boucicault and his wife.—Sir Charles Wyndham.—Leo Trevor.—Cyril Maude.—William Gillette.—The late Dion Boucicault.—Arthur Bourchier.—Allan Aynesworth.—Charlie Hawtrey.—The Grossmiths.—H. B. Irving.—W. L. Courtney.—Willie Elliot.—"Beau Little."—Henry Arthur Jones.—Gustave Doré.—J. MacNeil Whistler.—Walter Crane.—F. C. G.—Lady Ashburton and her forgetfulness. 283 CHAPTER XV NOTABLE PEERS—TANGIER—THE TECKS Peers of the Period.—My Voyage to Tangier.—Marlborough House and White Lodge.
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class="tdr c6">303 CHAPTER XVI MARRIAGE—SOME CLERICS—FAREWELL TO VANITY FAIR My engagement and marriage to Miss Topham-Watney.—"Drawl" and the Kruger cartoon.—"The General Group."—Field-Marshal Lord Roberts.—Archbishops Temple and Randall Davidson.—The Bishop of London.—Archbishop of York.—Canon Fleming.—Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.—Lord Salisbury's cartoon.—Mr. Asquith.—Joe Knight.—Lord Newlands.—Four great men in connection with Canada.—The Queen of Spain.—Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg.—General Sir William Francis Butler, G.C.B.—Mr. Witherby.—Farewell to Vanity Fair. 321 CHAPTER XVII A HOLIDAY MISFORTUNE—ROYAL PORTRAITS—FAREWELL Belgium.—Accident at Golf.—Portraits of King George V, the Duke of Connaught, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Garvin.—Portrait painting of to-day.—Final reflections.—Farewell. 332
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PAGE Mr. Charles Cox (Banker), 1881 47 The Marquis of Winchester, 1904 61 Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (Garter King-at-Arms, 1905) 71 Lord Haldon, 1882 138 Admiral Sir Compton Domville, 1906 160 Miss Christabel Pankhurst 160 F. R Spofforth (Demon Bowler), 1878 232 Mr. Gladstone, 1887 239 Sir Albert Rollit, 1886 248 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, 1902 324 The Marquis of Salisbury, 1902 326
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Leslie Ward Frontispiece James Ward, R.A. 3 James Ward's Mother 3 Miniature of my sister Alice and myself painted by Sir William Ross, R.A. 12 My Father 14 My Mother 14 Cartoons from Punch, 1865 22 Sir William Broadbent, 1902 31 Sir Thomas Barlow, 1903 31 Sir James Paget, Bart., 1876 31 Gainsborough's Tomb at Kew Churchyard and Tablet to his Memory Inside Church 35 My Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1872 37 My Sister, Beatrice, 1874
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">37 Bust of my Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1867 39 My Daughter Sylvia 39 John Everett Millais, R.A., 1874 55 C. R. Leslie, R.A. (my Godfather) 55 Lord Houghton, 1882 66 Fred Archer, 1881 66 The Duke of Beaufort, cir. 1895 66 First Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton), 1869 77 Mr. George Lane Fox, 1878 83 Lord Portman, 1898 83 Duke of Grafton, 1886 83 Sir William Jaffray, Bart. 88 Sir William Crookes, 1903 93 Sir Oliver Lodge, 1904 93 Sir William Huggins, 1903 93 Professor Owen, 1873 93 Thomas Gibson Bowles, 1905 94 Colonel Hall Walker, 1906 94 Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1876 94 Pellegrini Asleep, etc., cir. 1889 99 John Tenniel, 1878 105 Anthony Trollope, 1873 105 Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., 1877 105 "Miles Bugglebury," 1867 108 J. Redmond, M.P., 1904 113 The Speaker (J. W. Lowther, M.P.), 1906 113 Bonar Law, M.P., 1905 113 Henry Kemble, 1907 119 H. Beerbohm Tree, 1890 119 Gerald du Maurier, 1907 119 William Gillette, 1907 119 Fifth Earl of Portsmouth, 1876 123 Major Oswald Ames (Ozzie), 1896 123 Earl of Lonsdale, 1879 123 The Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35466@[email protected]#Page_127" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">127 Sterling Stuart, 1904 127 Father Bernard Vaughan, 1907 127 Canon Liddon, 1876 133 Cardinal Newman, 1877 133 The Dean of Windsor (Wellesley), 1876 133 Dr. Jowett, 1876 135 Dr. Spooner, 1898 135 Professor Robinson Ellis, 1894 135 Buckstone, and other Sketches 140 Mrs. George Rigby Murray 144 A Study 144 The Hon. Mrs. Adrian Pollock 144 A Midsummer-Night's Dream 151 Grand Prix 151 The Beefsteak Club 164 George Grossmith and Corney Grain, 1888 179 C. Birch Crisp, 1911 187 Oliver Locker Lampson, M.P., 1911 187 Weedon Grossmith, 1905 187 The Forty Thieves: programme and photographs 189 Johnny Giffard; Alfred Thompson; Corney Grain; "Tom" Bird; Corney Grain at Datchet; Pellegrini 191 Augustus Helder, M.P.; Madame Rachel; Lord Ranelagh; Beal, M.P.; Barnum; First Lord Cowley; Sir H. Cozens-Hardy; The Dean of Christchurch; Sir Roderick Murcheson 199 Lord Coleridge, 1870 211 Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy, 1893 211 H. C. Biron, 1907 211 E. S. Fordham, 1908 211 Charles Williams-Wynn, M.P., 1879 215 Sir James Ingham, 1886 215 Lord Vivian (Hook and Eye), 1876 215 Sir Albert de Rutzen, 1909 217 Mr. Plowden, 1910 217 Canon Ainger, 1892 222 16th Marquis of Winchester, 1904 222
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align="left">Archdeacon Wilberforce, 1909 222 Rev. J. L. Joynes, 1887 225 Dr. Warre Cornish, 1901 225 Dr. Goodford, 1876 225 Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904 231 Sam Loates, 1896 234 Arthur Coventry, 1881 234 Frank Wootton, 1909 234 Fordham, 1882 234 "Dizzy" and "Monty" Corry (Lord Rowton), 1880 241 Campbell-Bannerman and Fowler, 1892 247 Gladstone and Harcourt, 1892 247 Lords Spencer and Ripon, 1892 247 The Fourth Party, 1881 251 Baron Deichmann, 1903 253 W. Bramston Beach, M.P., 1895 253 "Sam" Smith, M.P., 1904 253 Percy Thornton, M.P., 1900 253 Seventh Earl of Bessborough, 1888 261 Rev. F. H. Gillingham, 1906 261 Archdeacon Benjamin Harrison, 1885 261 "Charlie" Beresford, 1876 268 Admiral Sir John Fisher, 1902 268 Admiral Sir Regd. Macdonald, 1880 268 Captain Jellicoe, 1906 268 King Edward VII, 1902 270 Sir John Astley 276 "Jim" Lowther, M.P., 1877 276 Peter Gilpin, 1908 276 Earl of Macclesfield, 1881 276 Chinese Ambassador (Kuo Sung Tuo), 1877 280 Ras Makonnen, 1903 280 Chinese Ambassador (Chang Ta Jen), 1903 280 Richard Wagner, 1877 285 The Abbé Liszt, 1886
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35466@[email protected]#Page_285" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">285 Kubelik, 1903 286 Sir Frederick Bridge, 1904 286 Paderewski, 1899 286 Sir Edgar Boehm, Bart., R.A., 1884; and the brass on Sir Edgar Boehm's Tomb 290 Sir Henry Lucy, 1909 292 W. S. Gilbert, 1881 292 W. E. Henley, 1892 292 Rudyard Kipling, 1894 292 From Nursery Rhyme Sketches; Rt. Hon. "Bobby" Low; Mr. Justice Lawrence; Danckwerts, K.C.; the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn; a Smile from Nature; Henry Irving 297 Lord Newlands, 1909 306 Count de Soveral, 1898 306 M. Gennadius, 1888 306 General Sir H. Smith Dorrien, 1911 313 Lord Roberts, 1900 313 Lord Kitchener, 1899 313 Lloyd George, 1911 318 Asquith, 1904 318 Rufus Isaacs, 1904 318 My Daughter 322 My Wife 322 Joseph Knight, and a facsimile letter 326 Princess Ena of Battenberg, 1906 330 Sketches drawn in September, 1899, by Mr. A. G. Witherby 332 M. P. Grace, Esq., Battle Abbey 340