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Before World War I, Bomberg depicted the East End of London, where he had grown up, as a site of immigrant vitality. After a harrowing experience in the trenches and difficulties after the war…
An expression of grief and an elegy to the death and destruction that war brings, this painting dates to the start of World War II, when Feibusch anticipated the coming devastation, drawing on his own…
Evening in the City of London was one of several charcoal drawings that David Bomberg made during World War II when he was a firewatcher in London. The city was regularly bombed by the Germans and…
E. O. W. Nude is considered one of Frank Auerbach’s masterpieces, an example of his distinctive painting style, which focused on the paint itself. The paint surface is thick enough to become almost…
This hand-colored mezzotint depicts a street peddler selling sewing supplies and other dry goods in London. A growing number of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish traders came to England in the late…
Francis Salvador (Daniel Francisco Salvador, 1685–1754) was born in Amsterdam. He was a relative of Catherine da Costa, the artist who painted his portrait. He was the grandfather of Francis Salvador…
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…
Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…
Paintings with biblical themes were among the genres for which Solomon J. Solomon was best known and which made him popular with both the public and critics in Victorian England and France. Here, he…
This scene in a bomb shelter during World War I is characterized by the empathy and intimacy with which many of Amy Julia Drucker’s London paintings were imbued. The children stand out amid the masses…
