Ezekiel, Ezekiel Abraham

English engraver; born in Exeter 1757; died there 1806. He engraved paintings by Opie, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others, and was also known as a miniature-painter and scientific optician. His son Solomon Ezekiel (b. 1781; d. 1867) dissuaded Sir Rose Price from establishing in Penzance a branch of the Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews. Ezekiel published a series of lectures on the lives of Abraham and Isaac and on the Hebrew festivals (Penzance, 1844-47).

Bibliography:

  * Dict. National Biography;
  * Jacobs and Wolf, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, Nos. 970-971;
  * Jew. Chron. March, 1867.



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