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In a self-portrait from ca. 1721, Catherine da Costa depicts herself at work in a studio, painting a portrait of mother and child that resembles paintings of the Madonna and child.
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
ca. 1720
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Among Catherine da Costa’s surviving paintings is the full-length portrait of her father, Dr. Fernando Mendes (1647–1724). Mendes was a prominent Jewish physician, who attended both King Charles II…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1721
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In 1950, when this photograph was taken, much of London’s East End was in ruins, the result of heavy bombing during World War II. Its glory days as a vibrant Jewish immigrant community were over, and…
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Photographer Unknown
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1950
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Simeon Solomon’s Carrying the Scrolls of Law, like other pre-Raphaelite paintings, explores the themes of spirituality and religious devotion. Solomon also explores the beauty of the young man…
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Simeon Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1867
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Here, Catherine da Costa, the first known female Jewish painter, has painted her daughter and granddaughter to resemble a Madonna and child. An unidentified woman leans over the infant, seemingly…
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1745
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Don Francisco Lopes Suasso (Abraham Israel Suasso, 1657–1710) was born in Amsterdam, the oldest child of wealthy Portuguese Jewish banker Antonio Lopes Suasso. Francisco followed in his father’s…
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Bernard de Jongere Lens
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1717
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This portrait of David Nieto was printed by James McArdell after a painting by David Esteves, London. David Nietostudied medicine in Padua and initially served as physician, preacher, and rabbinic…
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James McArdell, David Esteves
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
ca. 1745–1765
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Druks was commissioned to create this self-portrait in the form of a topographical map, by Steendrukkerij de Jong & Co., a large European printing house, who used it as a promotional gift for their…
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Michael Druks
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1974–1975
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In The Travelers, one of a series of “Mother Paintings,” Marie-Louise Motesiczky depicts herself and her mother, Henrietta (the white-haired woman at right), escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria…
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
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1940
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To Freud, all forms of religious observance were foolish and superstitious. His wife Martha, on the other hand, took religion much more seriously, as her grandfather had been a prominent rabbi in…
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Ralph Steadman
Places:
Kent, United Kingdom
Date:
1979