Paris, Cadart & Luce, 1872. Size (plate): 190 x 210 mm. Leaf: 300 x 480 mm.

Sprache: Französisch

Bestell-Nr: 134685

Bemerkungen: *Cadart No. 166. - Eliezer Levi Montefiore (1820-1894), [French: Edouard-Lévy Montefiore], businessman, etcher and gallery director, was born in the West Indies, son of Isaac Levi, merchant of Barbados and Brussels, and his wife Hanna, a cousin of the philanthropist, Sir Moses Montefiore. Like his brother Jacob, Eliezer adopted the name of Levi Montefiore. Educated in England, he migrated in 1843 to Adelaide where he became a commission and shipping agent. A talented black and white artist, Montefiore illustrated the catalogues of the National Gallery with his etchings of the principal pictures in 1883-93.