Portrait of Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family

Aron de Chavez

1689

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Print portrait of seated figure with a dragon under his feet and an angel above him, next to an armed figure standing and holding a flag, and a boy pointing to the angel, with Spanish text around the edge and in several places in the scene.

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Aron de Chavez

d. 1705

Aron De Chavez was a Dutch painter and engraver and the first Jewish artist recorded as working in England after the readmission of the Jews. He is known for his painting Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments, created for the Creechurch Lane synagogue in London. He also created illustrations for books, illuminated scrolls of the book of Esther, and produced a portrait of the poet Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family.

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