★BUENO (BONUS), Ephraim Hezekiah de Joseph.
(ob. 1665.)
Dor. Ephraim Bonvs, Medicvs Hebrævs.
Alter Avenzooar grandi sub judice magnus
in medicis, magni discipulus que patris.
Ioannes Lyvyus fecit.
Iohannis de Ram Excud.
(Etching 12 × 10½. Seventh State.)[¹]
p. 44.
[¹] The original from which this portrait is taken is unknown. Dr. M. Kayserling in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1902, vol. iii., p. 422, erroneously attributes it to Rembrandt. It was etched by a fellow pupil of his, Jan Lievens, who probably was also the delineator. Rembrandt’s portraits of Bueno at about the age of thirty-five are the celebrated etching known as the “Jew Doctor,” 1647, and an oil-painting, somewhat similar in style, head and bust only, but reversed, probably done at the same time and now in the collection of Baron de Six at Amsterdam. It has recently been etched by William Steelink (signed artist’s proof on Japanese paper, with the armorial bearings of the Baron de Six on the margin, 7½ × 6¼ ★ ), and also illustrates Kayserling’s biography of Bueno in the Jewish Encyclopedia, ibid. It has been suggested that a daughter of Bueno was the model for Rembrandt’s etching “The Jewish Bride.” Bueno became a Burgher of Amsterdam in 1651, and died on the 30 Hesvan 5426 = 8 Nov., 1665; and his wife Jeudit Buena i Sivan 5430 = 20 May, 1670.
CAMBON, Jules-Martin.