Alfred Alvarez Newman
Alfred Alvarez Newman | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1851 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 21 January 1887 (aged 35–36) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Metal craftsman, art collector, antiquary |
| Spouse |
Theresa Dora Saunders
(m. 1882) |
Alfred Alvarez Newman (1851 – 21 January 1887), also known as Alfred Abraham,[2] was an English metalworker and art collector.
He was the founder of the picturesque Old English Smithy on Archer Street, Haymarket, which became a place of fashionable resort during the "London season."[3] Among his clients were the Dukes of Westminster and Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, Louisa de Rothschild, Coutts Lindsay, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.[4]
Newman's interests included Anglo-Jewish history and archaeology, and was the author of several papers communicated to the Society of Architects and similar bodies.[5] He possessed a unique collection of Jewish prints and tracts bearing on these subjects,[6] which was acquired by Asher Isaac Meyers after his death.[7]
Newman was an organizer of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887, at which much of his collection was exhibited after his death,[8] and was among the first to give his support to the formation of the Jewish Historical Society of England, which was afterwards founded in 1893.[9] It was due largely to Newman's efforts that a proposal to demolish the Bevis Marks Synagogue was eventually defeated.[10]
References[edit]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1905). "Newman, Alfred Alvarez". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 293–294.
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ General Register Office (September 1882). Marriages, Kensington. Vol. 1a. London. p. 394a – via FreeBMD.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Creditors' Notices". The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter. 31 (24). London: 384. 9 April 1887.
- ^ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). "Newman, Alfred Alvarez". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 720. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
- ^ "Obituary". The Boston Weekly Globe. 9 March 1887. p. 3.
- ^ Redway, G. W., ed. (1887). "Obituary Memoirs". Walford's Antiquarian: Magazine and Bibliographical Review. 11. London: The Gresham Press: 208.
- ^ Wolf, Lucien (1911–1914). "Origin of the Jewish Historical Society of England". Transactions. 7. Jewish Historical Society of England: 206–221. JSTOR 29777668.
- ^ Rubens, Alfred (1955–1959). "Portrait of Anglo-Jewry 1656-1836". Transactions. 19. Jewish Historical Society of England: 13–52. JSTOR 29777944.
- ^ Berger, Natalia (2017). "The Historic Anglo-Jewish Exhibition in London, 1887". The Jewish Museum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 66–91. doi:10.1163/9789004353886_004. ISBN 9789004353886.
- ^ Levy, S. (1908–1910). "Anglo-Jewish Historiography". Transactions. 6. Jewish Historical Society of England: 13. JSTOR 29777647.
- ^ Hyamson, Albert M. (1951). The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492–1951. London: Methuen. p. 374. ISBN 9781000043846.