Dorothy Elaine Vicaji
English portrait painter
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Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (1890 - 13 February 1945) was an English portrait painter.
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Early life
Dorothy Elaine Vicaji was born in London in 1890 to Jessie Julia (née 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]
Career
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]