Portrait of Samson Wertheimer

After the death of Samuel Oppenheimer, Samson Wertheimer took over his role as the most important lender to the court. Like his predecessor, Wertheimer was also a philanthropist. He supported the poor, had synagogues built and financed the printing of Hebrew scripts. The portrait shows him not only as a man of the world but also as a pious scholar with parchment and quill surrounded by folios and manuscripts.