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1151947Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 18 — Ezekiel, Abraham Ezekiel1889Thompson Cooper

EZEKIEL, ABRAHAM EZEKIEL (1757–1806), engraver, was born at Exeter in 1757. He engraved portraits by Opie, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others, and was also well known as a miniature-painter and a scientific optician. He died in 1806. A miniature portrait of him was exhibited at the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition held in London in 1887.

[Jacobs and Wolf's Bibl. Angla-Judaica, No. 970; Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, p. 63.]