Fine three-quarter length portrait of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain in his Library.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 306

(HIRSCHEL, SOLOMON)

Fine three-quarter length portrait of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain in his Library.

Stipple engraving by Willam Holl after the original painting by the Jewish artist Frederick Benjamin Barlin, presently in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Lightly creased. 22 x 15 inches (to mat)

London, 1803:

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

Solomon Hirschel (1762-1845), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, was the scion of one of Europe’s distinguished Rabbinical dynasties. His father was the eminent Tzvi Hirsch Berlin, who proceeded him as Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, London and later served as Chief Rabbi of Berlin. Hirschel’s uncle was the celebrated Rabbi Jacob Emden.