Abraham Solomon was from a prominent Ashkenazic family that came to Britain in the late eighteenth century. He studied at the Royal Academy and showed there regularly beginning in 1841. Solomon was known for his paintings of literary genre subjects and socially conscious themes of contemporary life. Early in his career he painted Jewish subjects, including
Rabbi Expounding the Scriptures, shown at the Society of British Artists in 1840. Two of Abraham Solomon’s siblings—Rebecca and Simeon—also had notable artistic careers.
This is the second version of First Class: The Meeting—And at First Meeting Loved painted by Abraham Solomon. A young man in naval uniform talks with an older man and a young woman, who sits near the…
This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
When Max Liebermann first exhibited this painting, it caused not only a sensation but a scandal. Some critics objected to a Jew daring to depict Jesus, and they were offended by Liebermann’s realistic…