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Abraham Solomon: Artwork Database

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Click on LINK to go to the relevant image webpage.
Please note that this database is a work in progress and not all images are currently available.

1840: A Rabbi Expounding the Scriptures

c.1841: Study for a Man with a Fan

Pencil on buff paper
British museum - LINK

c.1841: Nude Study for Man with a Fan

Black chalk
British Museum - LINK

c.1841: Simeon Solomon as a Baby

Oil on canvas
Private collection

1842: The Acolyte

Oil on canvas
LINK

1844: The Duke of Wellington

Picture
  • Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 47.5 cm
  • Collection: English Heritage, Walmer Castle, Kent.
  • LINK to the BBC's Your Paintings website.
A portrait of the first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852). Taken from the 1844 daguerreotype of the Duke of Wellington by Antoine Claudet (one of the first to practice daguerreotype portraiture in England).

To read more about this painting and its associated daguerreotype and engraving (below) read Roberto Ferrari's article which can be found under the Databases/Writing tab or click HERE


1852: The Duke of Wellington

Picture
An engraving by John Sartain of Solomon's painting of the Duke of Wellington (above) and a daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet, from The Eclectic Magazine, Nov 1852.

c.1845: Self Portrait

Picture
Oil on canvas

c. 1845-50: Conversation Piece

Oil on Millboard
Image courtesy of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - LINK
Picture
© BMAG

1846: Portrait of Countess Eugenie

Oil on canvas
LINK

1848: A Ballroom in the Year 1760

Picture
Engraving from Illustrated London News, 20 May 1848, p327
Oil on canvas - Guildhall Art Gallery, London - LINK

c.1848: Two Figures [aka The Minuet]

Black, red and white chalks on green paper

1849: Portrait of Jenny Lind

Oil on canvas
Private collection

1849:An Academy for Instruction in the Discipline of the Fan 1711

Picture
Engraving from Illustrated London News, 26 May 1849.

Print/Study Drawing for Instruction in the Discipline of the Fan 1711

Pen and ink over red chalk on buff paper
British museum - LINK

1850: The New Hat

Oil on canvas
LINK

1850: Too Truthful

Oil

1851: An Awkward Position (Goldsmith at White Conduit House)

Picture
Engraving from Illustrated London News, 14 June 1851
Oil in private collection

1852: The Town and Country Belle

Oil on board
LINK

1852: The Grissette

Picture
Engraving from Illustrated London News, 5 June 1852, p452
Oil

1853: 'Spectator' Brunetta Overwhelms Phillis [aka Phillis and Brunetta]

Oil

1854: La Toilette

Picture
Oil and engraving

1854: The Scandal

Picture
Oil and engraving

1854: The Lady Lettice

Picture
Oil and engraving

1854: The Bashful Lover

Picture
Oil and engraving

c. 1853-54: First Class - the Meeting

Oil on canvas
Private collection

c. 1853-54: Second Class - the Parting

Oil on canvas
Private collection

Recto Study for 'First Class - the Meeting'

Black chalk heightened with white on buff paper
Ashmolean Museum - LINK

Verso Study for 'First Class - the Meeting'

Black chalk heightened with white on buff paper
Ashmolean Museum - LINK

1854: Portrait of Margeurite Bourgoigne

Oil on panel
LINK

1854: First Class- the Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved

Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada - LINK

1855: First Class - the Meeting (Revised Edition)

Picture
© National Rail Museum
Oil on canvas
Image courtesy of the National Railway Museum, York

Also Southampton City Art Gallery - LINK
Also Yale Center for British Art - LINK

1855: Second Class - the Parting "Thus Part we Rich in Sorrow"

Picture
© National Rail Museum
Oil on canvas
Image courtesy of the National Railway Museum, York

Also Southampton City Art Gallery - LINK
Also National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - LINK

1855: A Contrast

Picture
Engraving from Illustrated London News, 30 June 1855, p666
Oil

c. 1855: Portrait of a Woman

White and red chalk on paper

1856: The Timid Suitor

Oil on canvas
Museums Sheffield - LINK

1856: The Bride

Picture
Engraving
Oil on Board - LINK
Oil on canvas, Croydon Art Collection - LINK
Engraving below from Illustrated London News, 10 May 1856, p509

Picture

1856: The Vicar of Wakefield

Oil on canvas

1856: A Doubtful Fortune [Her Future in the Cards]

Oil on canvas
Private collection

1857: Waiting for the Verdict

Oil on canvas
Tate - LINK
Also, oil on board, Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery - LINK

1858: The Lion in Love

Oil on board
Private collection - LINK

1858: The Flight from Lucknow

Oil on canvas
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester Arts and Museums Service - LINK

1859: Not Guilty (The Aquittal)

Oil on canvas
Tate - LINK
Also oil on panel, Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery - LINK

1859: A Study

Engraving from Illustrated London News, 26 Nov 1859.

c. 1860: Brighton Front, East Sussex

Oil on panel
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery - LINK

1860: Art Critics in Brittany

LINK

1860: Drowned, Drowned!

1861: La Malade Imaginaire

LINK

1862: Backstage at the Theatre Royal

[possibly depicting Ira Frederick Aldridge (1807-67) rehearsing Othello]
Oil on canvas
LINK

1862: The Departure of a Diligence, Biarritz

Oil on canvas
Royal Holloway, University of London - LINK

1862: A Bretonne Peasant Girl

Oil on canvas

1862: By the Seaside

Oil on board
Private collection

1862: The Lost Found

Oil on canvas
Private collection

1862: The Fair Amateur

LINK

Seats for Five Persons

Oil on canvas
LINK

Young Woman Spinning Wool

LINK

n.d. The Lesson in the Use of the Fan

Oil on canvas
Oldham Gallery
LINK

Fortune Telling

LINK

Portrait of a Young Girl with a Rose

LINK

n.d. Sterne and Grissette

Oil on canvas
Coxwold, York, N. Yorks - LINK

n.d.: Physicians Disputing While the Patient Suffers

Oil on canvas
Wellcome Library, London - LINK

n.d.: The Unwilling Patient

Oil on canvas
Wellcome Library, London - LINK

n.d.: The Artist Abroad

Private collection - LINK

n.d.: Drawing

Paper
British Museum - LINK

n.d.: Portrait of a Lady with a Letter

Oil on canvas
Norwich Museums and Archeology Service - LINK

n.d.: A Portrait of Two Girls with their Governess

Oil on canvas
Private collection

n.d.: The Sixth Age

Oil on canvas
Full title: The Sixth Age Shifts Into Lean And Slippered Pantaloon With Spectacles On Nose And Pouch On Side His Youthful Hose Well Saved, A World Too Wide For His Shrunk; And His Manly Voice Turning Again Towards Childish Treble, Pipes And Whistles In His Sound'
Private collection

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