Creator Bio
Aernout Naghtegaal
17th–18th Centuries
Aernout Naghtegaal was a Dutch draftsman, printmaker, and engraver active in Amsterdam (and possibly Rotterdam and Leiden) in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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Portrait of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
This engraving portrays Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a rabbi, kabbalist, and preacher, born in Castro Daire, Portugal, to a family of New Christians. He arrived in Amsterdam with his family at the age of…