Rebecca Solomon
Rebecca Solomon (born September 26, 1832 in London , † November 20, 1886 in London) was an English painter.
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Rebecca Solomon was born in 1832 as the seventh of eight children to a family of art dealers. Two of her brothers, Abraham and Simeon , also became painters. She received her first drawing lessons from her mother, an experienced watercolourist, and her older brother Abraham, before taking classes at Spitalfields School of Design. In order to deepen her education, she also worked as an assistant in the studios of John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones .
Her relationship with her brothers was very close. She shared the studio with her older brother Abraham from 1851 until his death in 1862. She copied his paintings as his assistant and worked on her own works, which she also exhibited. In particular, her literary and biblical themes were recognized by the public. After that, the relationship deepened with her younger brother Simeon, with whom she shared the studio from 1865 to 1873. He showed his Judaism based on themes from the Old Testament and was a supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites .
From 1852 to 1868 she exhibited at the Royal Academy , but she also participated in exhibitions in other British cities such as Birmingham , Glasgow and Manchester . She mainly painted genre pictures , which often deal with social class and gender differences. a. The Governess (1851). She made illustrations for magazines such as the London Society and The Churchman's Family Magazine to supplement her income. In the mid-1850s she also turned to history painting, as in The Fugitive Royalists (1862). Influences of the Pre-Raphaelites , in whose circles she moved, shows z. B. the painting Waiting on a Balcony (1865), and The Wounded Dove (1866) is a very individual picture, which with the Asian porcelain above the fireplace reflects the beginning of Japonism .
literature
- Lionel Lambourne, Victorian Painting . London 1999.
- Ferrari, Roberto C. Rebecca Solomon, Pre-Raphaelite Sister The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 12: 2. 2004. pp. 23-36.
- Debra N. Mancoff: Women Who Changed Art. Prestel Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-4732-5 , pp. 19, 28-29.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Solomon, Rebecca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1886 |
| Place of death | London |