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Simeon Solomon

Simeon Solomon was an English Radical Queer Artist born on October 9, 1840. Solomon contributed to the Pre Raphaelite movement and died on August 14, 1905. Get notified when Simeon Solomon's biography is complete:

Edward Burne-Jones

A return to stained-glass grace

1833-1898

Thomas Woolner

Sculptor turned poet, Pre-Raphaelite turned Neoclassicist

1825-1892

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Querulous poet founds art movement

1828-1882

1801 2000

Why did we forget about Alfred Sisley?

Alfred Sisley

Anthropology or exploitation? Portraits of the Māori

Gottfried Lindauer

The faces we see in our dreams

Odilon Redon

Painting nature from a small boat

Claude Monet

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump”

François Auguste René Rodin

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Simeon Solomon

Babylon hath been a golden cup

Self-Portrait

Dante’s First Meeting with Beatrice

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene

A Prelude by Bach

Pastoral Lovers

Rabbi Carrying the Law