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

HIRSCHEL, SOLOMON.

London, 1803

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.

Rubens 1566.

Solomon Hirschel (1762-1845), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, was the scion of one of Europe’s most distinguished Rabbinic dynasties. His father was the eminent Tzvi Hirsch Berlin, who preceded 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.