Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (1890 - 13 February 1945) was an English portrait painter.
Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (1890 - 13 February 1945) was an English portrait painter.
Dorothy Elaine Vicaji was born in London in 1890 to Jessie Julia (nee Watts) and Anglo-Indian artist Rustom Vicaji (1857–1934), who had married in Fulham in June 1889. [1] [2] She lived at 17 Holly Mount, Hampstead during her childhood. [1]
The New Yorker magazine described her grandfather as a Persian moneylender who acquired a major landholding in India (Berar) that was taken back by its former ruler in an invasion. [3] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. [4]
The New York Times described her as a painter of "royalty and society folk". [5] She worked in the United States and in Canada. The Illustrated London News reported on a 1926 exhibition of her work and included images of several of her portraits. [6]
Vicaji painted Queen Alexandra and Margaret Lloyd George. [7] She painted Baron Joseph Duveen, [8] and his daughter, Dorothy Dunveen. [6] She painted an Argentinian dancer. [9] She did a portrait of Mrs. Oliver Harriman. [10] She painted Sir Robert Borden, Lady Byng, and Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. [11] In Canada she worked in Montreal, Quebec, and Ottawa. [12] She spent time in The Spur gave a favorable accounting of her work including a painting of Mrs. Norman Stines of San Francisco. [4]
Vicaji's painting Cottages in a Wooded Glade was signed D. E. Vicaji. [13]
The Thomas Edison National Historical Park's collection includes her work. [14]
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