Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (died 13 February 1945) was an English portrait painter. She was born in London.[1] Anglo-Indian artist Rustom Vicaji (1857–1934) was her father. The New York Times described her as a painter of "royalty and society folk".[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Vicaji painted Queen Alexandra and Margaret Lloyd George.[5] She painted Baron Joseph Duveen,[6] and his daughter, Dorothy Dunveen.[3] She painted an Argentinian dancer.[7] She did a portrait of Mrs. Oliver Harriman.[8] She painted Sir Robert Borden, Lady Byng, and Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.[9] In Canada she worked in Montreal, Quebec, and Ottawa.[10] She spent time in The Spur gave a favorable accounting of her work including a painting of Mrs. Norman Stines of San Francisco.[11]
Vicaji's painting Cottages in a Wooded Glade was signed D. E. Vicaji.[12]
The Thomas Edison National Historical Park's collection includes her work.[13]