Forty Years of 'Spy'

'Forty Years of 'Spy'' is the autobiography of British portrait artist and caricaturist, Sir Leslie Ward. For over four decades Ward painted 1,325 portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl". The portraits were produced as watercolors and turned into chromolithographs for publication in the magazine. In his book he traces his life's journey making a point of his family's long heritage of artistry as engravers, painters and sculptors. The book is heavily illustrated with many of his own portraits and paintings.