ABSTRACT
In 1647 Ephraim Bueno was immortalized by Rembrandt as a Jewish physician, in an engraving and in a painting. Jan Lievens made an engraving of him too. Both artists portrayed him as a distinguished and serious man, elegantly dressed. Ephraim Bueno was born in Portugal and qualified as a physician in Bordeaux in 1641. As well as practising medicine, he was a literary figure who wrote poems in Spanish and published several books, including the authoritative Shulchan Aruch and a Spanish translation of the Psalms. In 1656, along with Abraham Pereyra, he set up the study group Tora Or, where Portuguese Jews could immerse themselves in Judaism.
