Portrait of the Artist's Father Rabbi Moses Mielziner, (painting).

Portrait of the Artist's Father Rabbi Moses Mielziner, (painting).

Mielziner, Leo, 1869-1935, painter.

Portrait of the Artist's Father Rabbi Moses Mielziner, (painting).

Digital Reference:

Oval: 3 1/2 x 2 in.

(Center right:) MIELZINER / 97 (On back:) McKenna signed

Miniature portrait of the artist's father Rabbi Moses Mielziner facing forward with his gaze directed off to the left. He wears a black jacket and vest with a white shirt, and a pair of wire spectacles.

Portrait male -- Mielziner, Moses -- Bust

Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy

Dress -- Accessory -- Eye wear

McGrath, Richard J., 596 Meriden-Waterbury Road, Southington, Connecticut 06489

The portrait may have been used in the engraving that appears in the 1897 edition of the The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, though a photo of the Rabbi in the same clothes and pose has also been seen. The inscription McKenna on the reverse most likely refers to his wife Ellen Lane McKenna.

McGrath, Richard J., 2012.

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