Welcome to

John L. Loeb, Jr. Database
of
Early American Jewish Portraits

The world’s most extensive online gallery of portraits made
of American Jews in the Colonial and Antebellum Periods.

The Loeb Portrait Database of American Jewish Portraits gathers over 500 known portraits of Jews in America prior to 1865. Each portrait contains (where information is available), the subject’s name, birth and death dates, the artist and artist dates, the date of the portrait, the medium, dimensions, and the repository that holds the image. Of additional value are the biographies that accompany each portrait, a full listing of all repositories from which the images originate, and a rich array of related reading for additional research.

The world’s most extensive online gallery of portraits made of American Jews in the Colonial and Antebellum Periods.