A Portrait of an Old Jew: Returning Opie’s masterpiece to Penzance by Louise Connell, Director, Penlee House Gallery & Museum
This year Penlee House Gallery & Museum in Penzance purchased a portrait of an elder from the Penzance Jewish Community by John Opie (1761–1807), A Portrait of an Old Jew from c.1779 from a private collection. Painted in the style of Rembrandt, an artist whom Opie admired, the portrait stares directly at us out of […]
