Portrait of Alexander David of Braunschweig

Artist Unknown

ca. 1750

Born in Halberstadt, northern Germany, Alexander David (1687–1765) served as Court Jew to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, providing the ducal court with luxury items as well as banking services and loans. Despite the hostility he encountered in Brunswick, David succeeding in amassing a fortune of 150,000 reichsthalers by the time of…

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