Jacob Kramer 1892-1962
Portrait of Lord Rothschild, 1921
pastel on paper
40.5 x 33 cm
Framed: 61 x 53 cm
Framed: 61 x 53 cm
signed (lower right): 'Jacob Kramer'
1987-195
© The William Roberts Society, London
Photo: Bridgeman images
The British Jewish banker, politician, zoologist, and member of the Rothschild family, Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild (1868-1937), founder of the eponymous Museum at Tring in Hertfordshire, sat to Kramer...
The British Jewish banker, politician, zoologist, and member of the Rothschild family, Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild (1868-1937), founder of the eponymous Museum at Tring in Hertfordshire, sat to Kramer for his portrait in 1921, at Buckingham House, the home of Kramer’s patron Michael Sadler, then Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University. Kramer's sensitive pastel profile portrait, presents his now elderly, white haired and bearded sitter as more serious, introspective, and slighter of build than Rothschild appears in earlier portraits by other artists. This pastel is part of a body of portraiture of Kramer's family, friends, Jewish figures and 'celebrities', which became the focus of the artist's work after his return to Leeds.
Provenance
purchased 1946Exhibitions
1945 Exhibition of Paintings by A. A Wolmark (Konstam Collection), Dobrinsky Paris, and a selection of work from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1946 Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection and Works by Pissarro, Liebermann, Epstein, Modigliani, Chagall, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1951 Festival of Britain, Anglo-Jewish Exhibition 1851-1951, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1956 Tercentenary Exhibition of Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Artists, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1960 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery
2009 Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery
