An Early Reading of Shakespeare

Solomon Alexander Hart

1838

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Painting of domestic interior showing figures of men and women listening to a man reading.

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Solomon Alexander Hart

1806–1881

The British painter Solomon Alexander Hart entered the Royal Academy of Arts in 1823 and was elected the first Jewish member of the academy in 1840. He was known for painting Jewish subjects, including Interior of a Polish Synagogue at the Moment When the Manuscript of the Law is Elevated (1829–1830) and The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy (1850). Hart also painted many historical subjects, frequently drawn from Shakespeare’s plays and Walter Scott’s novels.

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Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers, 1750–1880

All over the world, Jewish art reflected the hybrid nature of Jewishness, including the material circumstances and cultural milieu of the larger environment. Individual artisans and artists selected and created according to their personal and Jewish experiences.

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