Joseph Mordecai (1851-1940)
Joseph Mordecai was a Jewish portrait and landscape painter, son of a London merchant. He studied at Heatherley’s and at the Royal Academy Schools, winning a several medals. He painted portraits of George V, Edward VII (the last portrait of the King, now in the Royal collection), Edward VIII, and exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Royal Academy (15) and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, the Royal Cumbrian Academy and the Paris Salon. Today, works by Mordecai can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery, the Guildhall Art Gallery in London, the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum and the Government Art Collection.
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