Salomon Bennett

Engraving of the future King George IV (1798). Made by Bennett from a portrait of the portrait painter William Beechey .

Salomon Jomtob Bennett (also: Salomo Bennett , Solomon (Yomtob) Bennett , Salomon Bennet or Yomtof Baneth ; * around 1761 or 1767 in Połock , Poland-Lithuania (today Polazk, Belarus ); † around 1838 or 1841 in Bristol ) was an engraver and portraitist .

Bennett's hometown Połock / Polazk in what is now Belarus belonged to Poland-Lithuania until the first Polish partition in 1772, then to the Russian Empire. He himself referred to "Belarus" as his fatherland. Bennett left his wife and children in 1792 to study in Copenhagen and went to Berlin in 1795. From 1796 he was a member of the Berlin Academy . In Berlin he made a name for himself with his copper engraved portraits of Queen Luise , Frederick the Great and Daniel Chodowieckis . For his portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II , he received the State Prize at the time. From 1800 he worked in London and had his family move to England. He may also have worked in St. Petersburg .

literature

General artist lexicon, Orell Füßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1813 (online in Google Books)
Jewish Lexicon , Berlin 1927, Vol. I, Col. 833 f.
Arthur Barnett: Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838. Artist, Hebraist, and Controversialist. In: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , Volume 17 (1951-52), pp. 91-111.
Salomon Wininger , Great Jewish National Biography , Volume VI, 454

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Rohdewald : “A mixture of people and languages like in the building of the Tower of Babel.” The Russian multiethnic city of Polotsk in the kaleidoscope of eyewitness reports. In: Thomas M. Bohn, Victor Shadurski: A white spot in Europe…. The imagination of Belarus as a contact zone between East and West. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 127-137, on p. 130.
^ ^A ^b Eljakim Carmoly : Memories from the history, literature and art of the Israelites - grave markers and pen. In: The Israelite , Volume VII, No. 12, March 21, 1866, pp. 216-217.
↑ Rolf W. Schloss: Let my people go. The Russian Jews between the Soviet Star and the Star of David - A Documentation. Olzog, 1971, p. 121.
↑ Jakob Klatzkin and Ismar Elbogen (eds.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . Eschkol, Berlin 1929, p. 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Bennett, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bennett, Salomon Jomtob (full name); Bennett, Solomon; Bennett, Solomon; Bennet, Solomon; Baneth, Yomtof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 1761 or 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH	Polotsk
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: 1838 or 1841
Place of death	Bristol

[1] Stefan Rohdewald : “A mixture of people and languages like in the building of the Tower of Babel.” The Russian multiethnic city of Polotsk in the kaleidoscope of eyewitness reports. In: Thomas M. Bohn, Victor Shadurski: A white spot in Europe…. The imagination of Belarus as a contact zone between East and West. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 127-137, on p. 130.

[Carmoly-2] A ^b Eljakim Carmoly : Memories from the history, literature and art of the Israelites - grave markers and pen. In: The Israelite , Volume VII, No. 12, March 21, 1866, pp. 216-217.

[3] Rolf W. Schloss: Let my people go. The Russian Jews between the Soviet Star and the Star of David - A Documentation. Olzog, 1971, p. 121.

[4] Jakob Klatzkin and Ismar Elbogen (eds.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . Eschkol, Berlin 1929, p. 140.