Edmond Xavier Kapp

Edmond Xavier Kapp (5 November 1890 – 29 October 1978) was a British portrait painter, draughtsman and caricaturist who during his career depicted many of the most famous politicians, artists and musicians of the time.

[1] Kapp attended Dame Alice Owen's School and then Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied for the Medieval and Modern Language Tripos.

[2] After leaving Cambridge he set up his own studio and was successful in selling his caricatures to various weekly and monthly periodicals.

[3] In the First World War Kapp served in the British Army as a lieutenant with the Royal Sussex Regiment.

[6][7] During 1946 and 1947 Kapp was commissioned by UNESCO to produce twenty portraits of the delegates at its first international congress in Paris.