Vtg Original Oil Painting of Rabbi. W. Topman. Dutch. 27” x 23”. Mid-Century

You are looking at a vintage (possibly antique) oil painting of an Ashkenazi Jewish rabbi with a snowy-white beard, wearing a yarmulke and talit. The painting is signed “W. Topman”.

From research, there appears to have been a small family of Jewish artists from the Netherlands; most prominent in the mid 20th Century. An “E. W. Topman” From the look of it, he belonged to the same school as Erwin and Otto Eichinger; especially with respect to his preferred subject matter and technique of very fine brush strokes.

Size: Frame is 27 inches tall and 23 inches wide. Painting is 20”x16”.

Medium: Oil

Features: Framed, Signed

Originality: Original

Painting Surface: Canvas

Size: Medium (up to 36in.)

Subject: Religious

Height (Inches): 27”

Region of Origin:

Europe Artist: W. Topman

Style: Realism Width (Inches): 23”

Date of Creation: 1950-1969