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

(HIRSCHEL, SOLOMON) 1762-1845

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. Framed

Rubens 1566

Solomon Hirschel, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and a profound Rabbinic scholar 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 Rabbi Jacob Emden, the celebrated luminary of German Jewry