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Jacques-Emile-Édouard Brandon, who was also known as Jacob Émile Édouard Péreira Brandon, was born to a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family. Like his German contemporary Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Brandon reached the highest level of academic training and was able to undertake an extended trip to Italy, both of which eased his …

Edouard Brandon’s rare 19th-century depiction of a Jewish man reading is even more absorbing today By Sebastian Smee BOSTON — Ever since curators at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts pulled this painting of a Jewish man out of storage just over a year ago, I have returned to it repeatedly. …