Dorothy E. Vicaji

Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (died 13 February 1945) was an English portrait painter. She was born in London. Anglo-Indian artist Rustom Vicaji (1857–1934) was her father. The New York Times described her as a painter of "royalty and society folk". 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. 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. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Vicaji painted Queen Alexandra and Margaret Lloyd George. She painted Baron Joseph Duveen, and his daughter, Dorothy Dunveen. She painted an Argentinian dancer. She did a portrait of Mrs. Oliver Harriman. She painted Sir Robert Borden, Lady Byng, and Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. In Canada she worked in Montreal, Quebec, and Ottawa. She spent time in The Spur gave a favorable accounting of her work including a painting of Mrs. Norman Stines of San Francisco. Vicaji's painting Cottages in a Wooded Glade was signed D. E. Vicaji. The Thomas Edison National Historical Park's collection includes her work.