Explore: Joseph Mordecai

(1851 - 1940)

Joseph Mordecai, portrait and landscape painter, was the son of a merchant, born in London. He studied at Heatherley’s and at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a medal. He also exhibited works at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Royal Academy 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 and the Guildhall Art Gallery in London and at Leeds Art Gallery.