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Mark Gertler was born in the East End of London, the son of poor Polish-Jewish immigrants. He studied at the Slade School in London from 1908 to 1912, and came under the influence of artists such as Nevinson and Wadsworth, as well as absorbing ideas about modern French painting from Fry and his coterie. His most successful paintings combine a reductive and simplified form with strong colour, overlaid by elements of Eastern European folk art. In 1915 Gertler accepted a commission from his friend T. E. Harvey to paint a portrait of Harvey’s cousin, Michael Sadler, who had been appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds in 1911. Gertler came to Leeds in August to fulfil the commission but according to the letters which he wrote to another friend, the collector Edward Marsh, he did not find it a happy task.