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An Anglo-Jewish miniature painter, Martha Isaacs was likely the daughter of the embroiderer Levi Isaacs. She studied under the British landscape painter Thomas Burgess, prior to traveling to Calcutta, where she painted portraits of British subjects. There, Isaacs married a prominent English official, Alexander Higgins, following her conversion to Christianity. Isaacs exhibited her work with the Free Society of Artists in London, a group of artists who organized annual exhibitions of contemporary British art in the 1760s.
All over the world, Jewish art reflected the hybrid nature of Jewishness, including the material circumstances and cultural milieu of the larger environment. Individual artisans and artists selected and created according to their personal and Jewish experiences.
