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

AUCTION 59 | Thursday, June 20th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art

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Lot 177

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

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 preceeded 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.