King Solomon

1874(?)

Simeon Solomon

Artist, British, 1840 - 1905

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    egg tempera (?) with touches of varnish on paper mounted to board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 39.5 x 21.5 cm (15 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
    mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.170

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Durlacher Brothers, London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1966-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Simeon Solomon, Durlacher Bros., New York, April 1966, no listing of works in cat.

  • Durlacher Bros. Simeon Solomon Exhibition, Wellesley College, Boston, May 1966, no. 4 (as High Priest).

1982

  • La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Decorative Arts, The Virginia Museum, Richmond, September 14-October 24, 1982, 25 (as High Priest).

1985

  • The English Avant-Garde of the 1880s: Aesthetes, Rebels, and Feminists, University of Virginia Library, Richmond, February-March, 1985, no cat.

1993

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 53.

1996

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; and The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1996-1997.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1966

  • Werner, Alfred. "Simeon Solomon: A Rediscovery." Arts Magazine, 40/7 (May 1966) p. 51, reproduced.

1986

  • Seymour, Gayle Marie. "The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986: 213, fig. 198.

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 53.

2009

  • Conroy, Carolyn. ”He Hath Mingled with the Ungodly”: The Life of Simeon Solomon after 1873, with a Survey of the Extant Works. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of York, York, 2009: 114-115 and fig. 13.

Inscriptions

lower left in tempera: SS (in monogram) / 1874 [final digit abraded and unclear]

Wikidata ID

Q64631367

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