Mortimer Luddington Menpes (22 February 1855 – 1 April 1938) was an Australian-born painter, author, printmaker and illustrator.
Born and raised in Port Adelaide, South Australia, Menpes migrated with his family to London, England in his early 20s, where he went on to study at the School of Art and exhibit at the Royal Academy. In 1880, during a sketching tour in Brittany, he befriended, and became a "disciple" of James McNeill Whistler. Under his influence, Menpes began incorporating motifs and techniques of Japanese art into his work, and in 1887, he travelled to Japan to witness its culture first-hand. He produced many Japonist works while there, which he exhibited back in London in 1888 at his first solo show. It proved to be a critical and commercial success, encouraging Menpes to travel further abroad for artistic inspiration, and over the next two decades he went to India, China, Kashmir, and Myanmar, among other countries. He also went to South Africa as a war artist during the Boer War.
A "born raconteur", Menpes was a fixture of British high society, and he became renowned for hosting soirées at his Japanese-style home on Cadogan Gardens, attended by a wide circle of artists, writers, socialites and other prominent figures. He was the godfather of Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan.
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (22 February 1855 – 1 April 1938) was an Australian-born painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. Born and raised in Port...
godfather to Vyvyan, but he declined because of his age. Wilde turned to MortimerMenpes, who accepted. According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography...
the leasehold in 2012 and had it converted into a hotel. The artist MortimerMenpes lived at number 25 from 1892 in a Japanese-styled house designed by...
New York: Phaidon. Ono, Ayako (2003). Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan. New York: Routledge Curzon...
there in 1903), 96 (1866–1878) and 101 (1863) at different times. MortimerMenpes, the watercolourist and etcher, shared a flat with Whistler. Edward...
Day celebrations took place in Port Adelaide. Impressionist painter MortimerMenpes was born, and grew up, in Port Adelaide where his father was a successful...
McCubbin, A ti-tree glade, 1897 E. Phillips Fox, A Love Story, 1903 MortimerMenpes, Australian artist who was a close associate of Whistler and experimented...
house at 8 Private Road, Enfield (1887), and on a house for the artist MortimerMenpes, at 25 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea (1893–94), where he incorporated them...
established between World War I and World War II, including one by MortimerMenpes, the artist and friend of Whistler. These have almost all now been...
praised for their design and execution, comparing some with the work of MortimerMenpes at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 1893 Bartels exhibited several...
other author-travellers' works such as Gaston Vullier, Dorothy and MortimerMenpes, as a fundamental milestone in the promotion of Spanish tourism amongst...
have had a dalliance with her at the time. She was also portrayed by MortimerMenpes. Her relationship with Howell was caricatured by Max Beerbohm in Rossetti...
Marie-Jeanne appeared at the door to join the cheerful atmosphere. MortimerMenpes (1855–1938) stayed at the Pension Gloanec with his wife and daughter...
continued with the business Henry Maydwell Martin (1846–1936) winemaker MortimerMenpes artist Beaumont Arnold Moulden George Murray (later His Honour Sir...
illustrated with etchings by MortimerMenpes. Clarke describes it as "an early example of the 'coffee-table' genre". Around this time, Menpes, at Praed's request...
India; letters from the East (Delhi Durbar). London : T.F. Unwin. Menpes, Mortimer (1903). The Durbar (Illustrated). London: A & C Black. Coronation Durbar...
(1875–1955): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940 Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938): Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator...
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