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Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1745
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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt is one of many portrait miniatures that Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino painted. He was a court painter in Dresden who painted portraits of members of the royal…
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Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino
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Kassel, German Confederation (Kassel, Germany)
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ca. 1820s
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Geskel Salomon’s portraits are striking for the way they convey the personalities of their sitters; we, as viewers, feel strongly that we are looking at real, flesh-and-blood people. Here, Salomon has…
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Geskel Salomon
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United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Sweden)
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Mid- to Late 19th Century
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Benjamin S. Judah (1761–1831) was an influential businessman in New York City and Philadelphia who built his wealth on shipping contracts to and from the West Indies. Judah was bankrupted when Great…
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Ralph Earl
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1794
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Grace Mendes Seixas Nathan was born in Connecticut in 1752 to a patriotic, literary Jewish family. In 1780, she married the British merchant Simon Nathan, a supporter of the American Revolution who…
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William James Hubard
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New York City, United States of America
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ca. 1824
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This cup and saucer set features a portrait of Jewish German banker Isaac Daniel Itzig and a picture of one of his homes in Berlin, the Bartholdy Meierei (Bartholdi dairy) on Köpenickerstrasse…
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1795
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In 1840, thirteen leaders of the Jewish community in Damascus were arrested and imprisoned because of an accusation of ritual murder. Appeals from the local Jewish community reached Jewish communities…
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1840
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Engravers Alexis Joseph Depaulis and Augustin Dupré collaborated on this remarkable Napoleonic-era medal that honored the Grand Sanhedrin, a representative body of seventy-one rabbis and Jewish…
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Alexis Joseph Depaulis, Augustin Dupré
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Paris, France
Date:
1806
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1813