British artist Rebecca Solomon painted works based on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dramas as well as contemporary genre scenes that often touched on issues of class, ethnicity, and gender. As a woman, Solomon was unable to study at the Royal Academy (unlike her brothers Abraham and Simeon), but she trained elsewhere and regularly exhibited her work at the Academy starting in 1858. While Solomon secured important private commissions and was well regarded by critics, she had to supplement her income by working as an artist’s assistant and making illustrations for magazines.
The man was a ferment of intelligence and emotion. He could not grow accustomed to the conventional life of the common herd. He thought differently from all the others and disliked collective thinking…
This drawing is a modern reconstruction of the ground plan of an open-air sanctuary. Situated in northern Israel, it consisted of an enclosure about 65 feet (20 m) in diameter surrounded by stones…
An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…