{"id":2006,"date":"2017-02-28T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/2017\/02\/28\/remembering-simeon-solomon\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:21:35","slug":"remembering-simeon-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/2017\/02\/28\/remembering-simeon-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Simeon Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>by Abi Stacey, Marketing, Communications and PR Manager<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/lgbthistorymonth.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">LGBT History Month<\/a> draws to a close we remember Pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) whose career was cut tragically short when he was arrested for homosexual acts.<\/p>\n<p>Simeon Solomon was born in 1840 to a prominent Jewish family and by 1858 his work was exhibited at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Academy<\/a>. He was part of Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u2019s circle and a friend of Edward Burne-Jones. His paintings and sketches depicted literary, classical and Biblical scenes, as well as Jewish life and rituals, such as this Passover Seder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tumblr_inline_om32wgpS331rivt1t_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><small>A Passover Seder depicted by Simeon Solomon, originally published in\u00a0\u201cOnce a Week\u201d (1862)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>In 1873 Solomon was arrested in a public urinal and charged with attempting to commit sodomy, for which he was fined \u00a3100 following a six week detention. He was arrested again the following year in Paris and sentenced to three months in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though he continued painting following his prosecutions, Solomon\u2019s mainstream career never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Over the following decades Solomon suffered from alcoholism and periods of extreme poverty, spending much time in the St. Giles Workhouse in one of London\u2019s poorest areas.<\/p>\n<p>He was supported through this time by his friends and family, including photographer Frederick Hollyer, who had worked with many of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and continued to produce reproductions of Solomon\u2019s art.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tumblr_inline_om33cozWcL1rivt1t_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><small>Photographic print by Frederick Hollyer of a Simeon Solomon drawing illustrating a scene from the Book of Ruth (1878)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>These prints found their way to Oxford\u2019s student halls where a new generation of young men, including Oscar Wilde, were introduced to Solomon\u2019s often homoerotic imagery and began collecting his work. In his prison letter to Lord Alfred Douglas (<i>De Profundis<\/i>) Oscar Wilde wrote of his bankruptcy and his sadness at having to sell many of his \u201ccharming\u201d things, including his Simeon Solomon paintings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Solomon died from complications brought on by alcoholism at St. Giles Workhouse on 14 August 1905 and was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Willesden.<\/p>\n<p>He left behind a great legacy and a substantial body of work, with his art now hanging in the walls of some of the greatest art galleries, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">V&amp;A\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Tate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Abi Stacey, Marketing, Communications and PR Manager As LGBT History Month draws to a close we remember Pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) whose career was cut tragically short when he was arrested for homosexual acts. 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