[Downunder Dan]

Mendoza is June Yvonne Mendoza, AO, OBE, RP, ROI, HonSWA - a portrait painter who worked in comics for a few year during Australia's golden age. Her formal instruction in portraiture began at the age of 14, her comics work occurred in her early 20s, and she moved to England in the early 1950s (where she also drew some comics). She was commissioned to paint portraits of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Sammy Davis Junior, Sean Connery, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II (twice), HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Sir William McMahon, Prince Edward, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Sir John Major, Sir John Gorton, Corazon Aquino, Goh Chok Tong and many others. She died in 2024, less than a month before what would have been her 100th birthday. She was interviewed in 2014 by Pikitia Press (https:pikitiapress.blogspot.com/2014/01/june-mendoza-interview.html)

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