Rebecca Solomon

Rebecca Solomon ( born September 26, 1832 in London, † November 20, 1886 in London) was an English painter.

Life and work

Rebecca Solomon was born in 1832 as the seventh of eight children in a family of merchants interested in art. Two of her brothers, Abraham and Simeon, even painters were. Her first drawing lessons when she was by her older brother Abraham, before she took classes at the Spitalfields School of Design. In order to deepen their education, also worked as an assistant in the studio 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 1862. Thereafter, the relationship with her younger brother Simeon, with whom she shared a studio from 1865 to the 1870s deepened.

From 1852 to 1868 she exhibited at the Royal Academy, but they also participated in exhibitions in other British cities, such as Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester in part. She painted mainly genre paintings, which often look at social class differences and gender differences, including The Governess ( 1851). Mid-1850s it has also turned to the history of painting in the picture The Fugitive Royalists (1862 ). Influences of the Pre-Raphaelites, in whose circles she moved, for example, shows the painting Waiting on a Balcony (1865 ), and The Wounded Dove (1866 ) is a very personal picture that reflects the incipient Japonism.