Julius Mendes Price

Julius Mendes Price FRGS[1] (1857 – 29 September 1924) was an artist, war correspondent, explorer, traveller, journalist and caricaturist for Vanity Fair (signed "Imp", "Jmp" or "jmp").

Born in St Pancras, London, to a Jewish family, he was educated at University College London and studied art in Brussels and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

In 1898 he went on an expedition across the Northwest Territory of Canada and down the Yukon River to the Klondike gold rush.

During the 1890s and early 1900s he contributed art and prose to various journals including the Fortnightly Review and the Pall Mall Gazette.

During the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo in 1916 he was the only foreign correspondent present at the capture of Gorizia by the Italian army.