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    Artist

  • Campbell, John Hodgson

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Louis Liebes]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 40 " x 30" ; 102 x 77 cm. +, frame (50" x 39.5")

  • Date

    1891

  • Notes

    Signature of artist in lower-right hand corner

    Stamp on back of canvas: Prepared by Winsor & Newton\ 38, Rathbone [?] Place\ London, W.\ 417008

    Handwritten on back of canvas: J Hodgson Campbell\ 55 Pilgrim St.\ Newcastle on Tyne\1891

    Stamps on back of frame shows 4627 and either 6068 or 8909

  • Summary

    In a three-quarter length portrait, the subject is as a middle-aged man. He wears a black waistcoat and vest with a black tie, and he has wavy hair and a chinstrap beard. With finely rendered features, the subject gazes to the right of the viewer. He is depicted with his arms leaning against the back of a brown sofa.

  • Depicted

    Liebes, Louis

  • Subject

    Nineteenth century; Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Louis Liebes was married to Lina Liebes. They emigrated from Germany and settled in San Francisco, CA in the 1890s. Louis Liebes was a trustee of the First Hebrew Benevolent Society of San Francisco in 1889 and 1890.

John Hodgson Campbell was an English portrait, landscape, and genre painter. He was born in 1855 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He studied at the Royal Academy in London. He died in 1927.

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Campbell, John Hodgson: [Portrait of Louis Liebes], Leo Baeck Institute, 2018.46.