Birth date
1860
Death date
1938
Biography
Mortimer Menpes was born in Australia in 1860. Coming to England, he became a pupil and follower of Whistler. He worked in the style of his master as painter, draughtsman and etcher. He exhibited from 1882 until 1913 at the Society of Painter Etchers in London and, in 1904, wrote an admiring memoir of Whistler entitled “Whistler as I knew him.” [G0953 is now known to be an etching by Menpes and is catalogued as P0529.]