EDIT: This is Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, founder and rector (rosh yeshiva) of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, painted in 1890: link. Below is a more commonly seen image, a photograph:
My guess is Iraqi probably Baghdadi, or someone from Calcutta or Bombay, with your attempt to fake us out being the quasi-Hassidische garb. However, both beard (full all the way up) and glasses, plus a slightly Indian-miniaturesque/ Mughal cast to the illustration leads me to suspect that this is something eastern. I'm the one who opined Karaite, Asian Muslim (not seriously) or a Sassoon above. It is not Firkovitch for sure.
he seems to look much happier in the photograph with his more modern modern apparel and smaller head covering. but i'm sure the diffrences in countenance is owing just to the excrutiatingly long time it took to sit for a painted portrait.
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Malbim?
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ReplyDeleteMy guess is Iraqi probably Baghdadi, or someone from Calcutta or Bombay, with your attempt to fake us out being the quasi-Hassidische garb. However, both beard (full all the way up) and glasses, plus a slightly Indian-miniaturesque/ Mughal cast to the illustration leads me to suspect that this is something eastern. I'm the one who opined Karaite, Asian Muslim (not seriously) or a Sassoon above. It is not Firkovitch for sure.
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ReplyDeleteGood guesses, but this is Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, painted in 1890: link.
he seems to look much happier in the photograph with his more modern modern apparel and smaller head covering. but i'm sure the diffrences in countenance is owing just to the excrutiatingly long time it took to sit for a painted portrait.
ReplyDelete(selfish self-promotion: my blog is back up at http://agmk.blogspot.com