Polish-Jewish emigre artist Alfred Wolmark was closely associated with the Ben Uri for many years: in 1925, together with Solomon J Solomon, Wolmark presided over the official opening of the Ben Uri’s first gallery in Great Russell Street, also acting as Vice-President from 1923–56, and as adviser on purchasing policy. Wolmark appears in many other portraits in the collection covering most of his career including an early Self-Portrait (1902), a small cameo portrait mischievously included in the background (upper left) of his monumental painting, The Last Days of Rabbi ben Ezra (1905), a dandified portrait by Ernest Borough-Johnson (c. 1909-15), a caricature in Alfred Adrian Wolfe's cartoon of the 1917 art committee, and in another later portrait by Ben Uri's longstanding Treasurer Cyril Ross (c. 1950s).