Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Rebecca Solomon - The Wounded Dove


1866
University of Wales collection
Rebecca Solomon studied under her brother Abraham, then at the Spitalfields School of Design, and later worked in the studio of Millais (including making a copy of his work Christ in the House of his Parents apparently partly overpainted by Millais himself), and for Burne-Jones in the capacity of a model. From the 1850s through to the end of the 1870s she was a prolific exhibitor at the London galleries, including the Royal Academy from 1852-1869. She produced mainly portraits and history paintings, often with Christian themes, as opposed to her brother Simeon, who in the 1860s illustrated Jewish customs.

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