Regency Portraits Catalogue
Solomon Hirschel (1762-1842), Chief Rabbi in London
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c.1802
NPG 1343 was painted by F. B. Barlin, a son of the Reader of the Chatham Synagogue and an Honorary Exhibitor at the RA, probably to celebrate Hirschel's appointment as Chief Rabbi.
A variant was engraved also by Holl but ascribed to Slater; this was published by Burnett & Justins in 1808 lettered: THE REV. SOLOMON HIRSCHELL: Chief Rabbi of the Germans and Polish Jews in England.
A comparable portrait by Barlin, of Raphael Meldola, Chief Rabbi of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London 1805-28, is in Bevis Marks Synagogue (Alfred Rubens, Anglo-Jewish Portraits, 1935, p 70).
c.1811
Oil by Drummond, head and shoulders in fur hat and bands, engraved by Ridley 'from an Original Painting by Drummond' and published in The European Magazine, 2 April 1811.
1838
Bust by George Abbott exhibited RA 1838 (1334), perhaps that lent to the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, V&A Museum, 1956 (141) by Messrs N. M. Rothschild & Sons.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
NPG 1343 was painted by F. B. Barlin, a son of the Reader of the Chatham Synagogue and an Honorary Exhibitor at the RA, probably to celebrate Hirschel's appointment as Chief Rabbi.
A variant was engraved also by Holl but ascribed to Slater; this was published by Burnett & Justins in 1808 lettered: THE REV. SOLOMON HIRSCHELL: Chief Rabbi of the Germans and Polish Jews in England.
A comparable portrait by Barlin, of Raphael Meldola, Chief Rabbi of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London 1805-28, is in Bevis Marks Synagogue (Alfred Rubens, Anglo-Jewish Portraits, 1935, p 70).
c.1811
Oil by Drummond, head and shoulders in fur hat and bands, engraved by Ridley 'from an Original Painting by Drummond' and published in The European Magazine, 2 April 1811.
1838
Bust by George Abbott exhibited RA 1838 (1334), perhaps that lent to the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, V&A Museum, 1956 (141) by Messrs N. M. Rothschild & Sons.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.