Portraiture and the Jewish Atlantic World
EARLY BIRD SALE UNTIL NOVEMBER 21 AT 11:59 PM
Shabbat Service, Dinner, and Talk with guest speaker Emily Beeber
This talk will examine a selection of portraits of Jewish sitters from throughout the Atlantic world, including British and Dutch Sephardim, as well as early members of Mikveh Israel and their connections within and beyond Philadelphia. By focusing on figures such as the British artist Catherine da Costa and the American educator and philanthropist Rebecca Gratz, this talk will consider how portraiture across media, from intimate miniatures to large-scale oil paintings, illuminates the experiences of Jewish individuals and families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Guest speaker: Emily Beeber Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Emily Beeber specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art with an emphasis on portraiture. Her dissertation project, "Visualizing Jewishness in the Atlantic World, 1715-1830," explores how Jewish people, who operated as artists, patrons, sitters, and consumers, used portraits to express their identities and cultivate relationships both locally and transnationally. Emily has held curatorial internships at the National Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, and The Phillips Collection. In Summer 2024, she was a Delaware Public Humanities Institute Fellow at the University of Delaware, and in January 2025, she will be a Fein & Lapidus Fellow at the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
EARLY BIRD SALE UNTIL NOVEMBER 21 AT 11:59 PM
Shabbat Service, Dinner, and Talk with guest speaker Emily Beeber
This talk will examine a selection of portraits of Jewish sitters from throughout the Atlantic world, including British and Dutch Sephardim, as well as early members of Mikveh Israel and their connections within and beyond Philadelphia. By focusing on figures such as the British artist Catherine da Costa and the American educator and philanthropist Rebecca Gratz, this talk will consider how portraiture across media, from intimate miniatures to large-scale oil paintings, illuminates the experiences of Jewish individuals and families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Guest speaker: Emily Beeber Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Emily Beeber specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art with an emphasis on portraiture. Her dissertation project, "Visualizing Jewishness in the Atlantic World, 1715-1830," explores how Jewish people, who operated as artists, patrons, sitters, and consumers, used portraits to express their identities and cultivate relationships both locally and transnationally. Emily has held curatorial internships at the National Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, and The Phillips Collection. In Summer 2024, she was a Delaware Public Humanities Institute Fellow at the University of Delaware, and in January 2025, she will be a Fein & Lapidus Fellow at the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
EARLY BIRD SALE UNTIL NOVEMBER 21 AT 11:59 PM
Shabbat Service, Dinner, and Talk with guest speaker Emily Beeber
This talk will examine a selection of portraits of Jewish sitters from throughout the Atlantic world, including British and Dutch Sephardim, as well as early members of Mikveh Israel and their connections within and beyond Philadelphia. By focusing on figures such as the British artist Catherine da Costa and the American educator and philanthropist Rebecca Gratz, this talk will consider how portraiture across media, from intimate miniatures to large-scale oil paintings, illuminates the experiences of Jewish individuals and families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Guest speaker: Emily Beeber Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Emily Beeber specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art with an emphasis on portraiture. Her dissertation project, "Visualizing Jewishness in the Atlantic World, 1715-1830," explores how Jewish people, who operated as artists, patrons, sitters, and consumers, used portraits to express their identities and cultivate relationships both locally and transnationally. Emily has held curatorial internships at the National Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, and The Phillips Collection. In Summer 2024, she was a Delaware Public Humanities Institute Fellow at the University of Delaware, and in January 2025, she will be a Fein & Lapidus Fellow at the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.