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Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980 is the first of a series of photographs called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency that Goldin created over ten years, beginning in 1976, and which was…
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Nan Goldin
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London, United Kingdom
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1980
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Self-Portrait with Candles is a rare example of a work with a Jewish theme by Lily Delissa Joseph. Here she has painted herself holding two Sabbath candles. Her head is covered, as is traditional for…
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Lily Delissa Joseph
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1906
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Twice elected prime minister of Britain, Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) initially turned to writing in an effort to pay his debts; his early works were fashionable “silver-fork novels” depicting an…
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London, United Kingdom
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1852
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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, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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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…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1720
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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…
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Frank Auerbach
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London, United Kingdom
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1953–1954
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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…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1800
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi (ca. 1660–1718) was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. Also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the…
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Artist Unknown
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
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Among the portrait miniatures of family members that Catherine da Costa painted is this locket portrait of her son, Abraham da Costa (b. 1704), when he was ten years old.
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
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This portrait depicts the first chief rabbi of Great Britain, Aaron Uri Feivel Hart (1670–1756). Hart was born in Breslau and followed his merchant brother to England. His only published work, the…
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Dannor
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1723