A Jewish Art Renaissance

She is serene and dignified, perhaps even a little bored. Her eyes are slate blue and her lips bee-stung. She wears the marriage finery of early 20th-century Orthodox Judaism: a fur-trimmed cape, satin bib and a tiara boasting 300 small pearls. Despite her humble status - other Jews at the time would have regarded her Hasidic family as backward - she is obviously a woman of means. And 112 years after first being painted, her image still commands the room