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Lord Iveagh ('Guinness Trust'), Men of the Day No. 511 by Leslie Ward
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Lord Iveagh ('Guinness Trust'), Men of the Day No. 511

Leslie Ward · Vanity Fair, 11 July 1891

Leslie Ward ('Spy') renders Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, in the confident leisure dress of a Victorian aristocrat: a rust-checked Norfolk jacket, knickerbockers, tall riding gaiters, and a cane held loosely at his side. The caption, Guinness Trust, signals not merely his brewery dynasty but his 1890 endowment of the Guinness Trust, which built affordable housing for London's working poor — a philanthropy that generated genuine public admiration. Ward's caricature is relatively gentle: the mustache and receding hairline are sharpened, the posture slightly self-satisfied, but the figure reads as a man of consequence rather than ridicule.

About this artifact

Creator
Leslie Ward
Date
Vanity Fair, 11 July 1891
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
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