Creator Bio
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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Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments
Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments was painted by Aron de Chavez, a painter and engraver of Dutch origin, for the synagogue in Creechurch Lane (the first post-medieval synagogue in London) used…
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Portrait of Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family
This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo (God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…