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Title: Forty years of 'Spy'

Author: Sir Leslie Ward

Release date: March 3, 2011 [eBook #35466]
Most recently updated: January 7, 2021

Language: English

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LESLIE WARD.





FORTY YEARS OF 'SPY'

BY

LESLIE WARD



Illustrated



LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS

CONTENTS
  
  
CHAPTER I 
  
EARLY DAYSpage
  
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 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.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

ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

PAGE
Mr. Charles Cox (Banker), 188147
The Marquis of Winchester, 190461
Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (Garter King-at-Arms, 1905)71
Lord Haldon, 1882138
Admiral Sir Compton Domville, 1906160
Miss Christabel Pankhurst160
F. R Spofforth (Demon Bowler), 1878232
Mr. Gladstone, 1887239
Sir Albert Rollit, 1886248
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, 1902324
The Marquis of Salisbury, 1902326

IN HALF-TONE

Leslie WardFrontispiece
James Ward, R.A.3
James Ward's Mother3
Miniature of my sister Alice and myself painted by Sir William Ross, R.A.12
My Father14
My Mother14
Cartoons from Punch, 186522
Sir William Broadbent, 190231
Sir Thomas Barlow, 190331
Sir James Paget, Bart., 187631
Gainsborough's Tomb at Kew Churchyard and Tablet to his Memory Inside Church35
My Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 187237
My Sister, Beatrice, 187437
Bust of my Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 186739
My Daughter Sylvia39
John Everett Millais, R.A., 187455
C. R. Leslie, R.A. (my Godfather)55
Lord Houghton, 188266
Fred Archer, 188166
The Duke of Beaufort, cir. 189566
First Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton), 186977
Mr. George Lane Fox, 187883
Lord Portman, 189883
Duke of Grafton, 188683
Sir William Jaffray, Bart.88
Sir William Crookes, 190393
Sir Oliver Lodge, 190493
Sir William Huggins, 190393
Professor Owen, 187393
Thomas Gibson Bowles, 190594
Colonel Hall Walker, 190694
Colonel Fred Burnaby, 187694
Pellegrini Asleep, etc., cir. 188999
John Tenniel, 1878105
Anthony Trollope, 1873105
Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., 1877105
"Miles Bugglebury," 1867108
J. Redmond, M.P., 1904113
The Speaker (J. W. Lowther, M.P.), 1906113
Bonar Law, M.P., 1905113
Henry Kemble, 1907119
H. Beerbohm Tree, 1890119
Gerald du Maurier, 1907119
William Gillette, 1907119
Fifth Earl of Portsmouth, 1876123
Major Oswald Ames (Ozzie), 1896123
Earl of Lonsdale, 1879123
The Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904127
Sterling Stuart, 1904127
Father Bernard Vaughan, 1907127
Canon Liddon, 1876133
Cardinal Newman, 1877133
The Dean of Windsor (Wellesley), 1876133
Dr. Jowett, 1876135
Dr. Spooner, 1898135
Professor Robinson Ellis, 1894135
Buckstone, and other Sketches140
Mrs. George Rigby Murray144
A Study144
The Hon. Mrs. Adrian Pollock144
A Midsummer-Night's Dream151
Grand Prix151
The Beefsteak Club164
George Grossmith and Corney Grain, 1888179
C. Birch Crisp, 1911187
Oliver Locker Lampson, M.P., 1911187
Weedon Grossmith, 1905187
The Forty Thieves: programme and photographs189
Johnny Giffard; Alfred Thompson; Corney Grain; "Tom" Bird; Corney Grain at Datchet; Pellegrini191
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 Murcheson199
Lord Coleridge, 1870211
Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy, 1893211
H. C. Biron, 1907211
E. S. Fordham, 1908211
Charles Williams-Wynn, M.P., 1879215
Sir James Ingham, 1886215
Lord Vivian (Hook and Eye), 1876215
Sir Albert de Rutzen, 1909217
Mr. Plowden, 1910217
Canon Ainger, 1892222
16th Marquis of Winchester, 1904222
Archdeacon Wilberforce, 1909222
Rev. J. L. Joynes, 1887225
Dr. Warre Cornish, 1901225
Dr. Goodford, 1876225
Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904231
Sam Loates, 1896234
Arthur Coventry, 1881234
Frank Wootton, 1909234
Fordham, 1882234
"Dizzy" and "Monty" Corry (Lord Rowton), 1880241
Campbell-Bannerman and Fowler, 1892247
Gladstone and Harcourt, 1892247
Lords Spencer and Ripon, 1892247
The Fourth Party, 1881251
Baron Deichmann, 1903253
W. Bramston Beach, M.P., 1895253
"Sam" Smith, M.P., 1904253
Percy Thornton, M.P., 1900253
Seventh Earl of Bessborough, 1888261
Rev. F. H. Gillingham, 1906261
Archdeacon Benjamin Harrison, 1885261
"Charlie" Beresford, 1876268
Admiral Sir John Fisher, 1902268
Admiral Sir Regd. Macdonald, 1880268
Captain Jellicoe, 1906268
King Edward VII, 1902270
Sir John Astley276
"Jim" Lowther, M.P., 1877276
Peter Gilpin, 1908276
Earl of Macclesfield, 1881276
Chinese Ambassador (Kuo Sung Tuo), 1877280
Ras Makonnen, 1903280
Chinese Ambassador (Chang Ta Jen), 1903280
Richard Wagner, 1877285
The Abbé Liszt, 1886285
Kubelik, 1903286
Sir Frederick Bridge, 1904286
Paderewski, 1899286
Sir Edgar Boehm, Bart., R.A., 1884; and the brass on Sir Edgar Boehm's Tomb290
Sir Henry Lucy, 1909292
W. S. Gilbert, 1881292
W. E. Henley, 1892292
Rudyard Kipling, 1894292
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 Irving297
Lord Newlands, 1909306
Count de Soveral, 1898306
M. Gennadius, 1888306
General Sir H. Smith Dorrien, 1911313
Lord Roberts, 1900313
Lord Kitchener, 1899313
Lloyd George, 1911318
Asquith, 1904318
Rufus Isaacs, 1904318
My Daughter322
My Wife322
Joseph Knight, and a facsimile letter326
Princess Ena of Battenberg, 1906330
Sketches drawn in September, 1899, by Mr. A. G. Witherby332
M. P. Grace, Esq., Battle Abbey340

IN LINE

Cruikshank's Autograph 86
Facsimile of a Whistler letter299
"Smile, damn you, smile!"334