Abraham Solomon

Abraham Solomon ( born August 1823 in London, † December 19, 1862 in Biarritz ) was an English painter.

Abraham Solomon was born in 1823 as one of eight children of an art-loving family of merchants. Two other siblings, the new years younger sister Rebecca and 21-year- younger Simeon, also painters were. Both got their first drawing lessons from her older brother Abraham.

At the age of thirteen Abraham Solomon began his training at the Henry Sass led by art school in Bloomsbury. In 1839 he was accepted at the Royal Academy. In 1840 he exhibited his first paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists, and in the following years in the Royal Academy.

Abraham Solomon painted mainly genre scenes, often initially by literary sources. In the 1850s he began to paint pictures of some originality in design and composition, which he planned pairwise images, expanding to an additional dramatic element, such as. e.g. in First Class - The Meeting (1854 ) and Second Class - The Parting (1855 ) or Waiting for the Verdict and Not Guilty (both 1857). His paintings depict the social issues such as Drowned! Drowned! (1860 )

1860 married Abraham Solomon, but two years later, in 1862, he died in Biarritz from heart disease.