; Yiddish: יעקב בונעמאוויטש; romanized: Yakov Bunimovitsh; Lithuanian: Jokūbas Bunimovičius) was a Lithuanian Jewish portrait artist who flourished in Frankfurt during the final two decades of the 19th century.
Bunimowitsch began his schooling at the Vilnius Academy of Arts during the period of 1873-4;[5][6] two paintings completed during this time, Arkliai Arime and Kaimelio Gatve are examples of the Eastern European dynamic landscapes which were popular at the school at this time.
His style of austere aristocratic portraiture was to come after, influenced by his subsequent teachers.
Likely, it was at this time when he painted a portrait of Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden as a young teenager.
Bunimowitsch painted fine portraits of prominent Jews and royalty, two of which are housed in The Leo Baeck Institute; these are a set of two portraits of Jakob and Henriette Goldschmidt;[9][1] he painted portraits of at least two of the daughters of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild in Frankfurt, Minna Karoline Freiin von Rothschild (later von Goldschmidt; see Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild) and a posthumous portrait of her older sister, Georgine Sara von Rothschild, who had passed away in 1869[10] (her portrait looks away from the viewer, a technique known with posthumous portraiture).