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Abraham Solomon: Exhibition History 1840-1862

DATE
LOCATION
WORK SHOWN
March 1840
Suffolk Street, Society of British Artists, London

no. 9 Rabbi Expounding the Scriptures
1840
Liverpool Academy
no. 342 Study of a Head
no. 360. She Never told her Love
no. 445. Portrait of the Rev. D. M. Isaacs


1841
Liverpool Academy
no. 74. "One with her auburn tresses slightly bound, and fair brows gently drooping as the fruit nods from the tree, was slumbering with soft breath, and lips apart, which showed the pearls beneath."
3 May 1841
Royal Academy
no. 88 My Grandmother
no. 1164 "It would seem that nurse Schoolbred's applications were now so far successful, that Catherine's senses were..." Fair Maid of Perth

1842
Liverpool Academy
no. 344 The Billet Doux
March 1842
Society of British Artists, London
no. 190 The Stratagem Discovered
no. 426 "One with her auburn tresses lightly bound,/And fair brows gently drooping as the fruit/Nods from the tree, was slumbering with soft breath/And lips aprt, which showed the pearls beneath."

2 May 1842
Royal Academy
no. 1022 Scene from the Vicar of Wakefield
1843
Liverpool Academy
no. 286 "The Sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon;
With Spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound."

March 1843
Society of British Artists, London
no. 254 Scene from the Devil from Two Stocks
no. 337 The Billet-Doux

1 May 1843
Royal Academy
no. 125 "On Widow fair and staid
He fixed his eye, but he was much afraid;
Yet wooed, while she his hair of silver hue
Demurely notice, and her eye withdrew." Vide Crabbe's Parish Register

1844
Liverpool Academy
no. 107 The Officious Servant
no. 111 The Tear

6 May 1844
Royal Academy
no. 10 "The Sabbath service o'er, through shady lanes
With intermingled trees and shrubs embowered
Their way they took. With truth and eloquence from
Love derived, his tender suit he urged,
And of the future such a picture drew
Of happiness, by mutual love insured,
As in the maid a chord responsive woke".
no. 255 Portrait of a Lady

5 May 1845
Royal Academy
no. 502  “‘Then by heaven,’ answered Julian ‘I will watch his arrival in this island, and in this house; and, ere he has locked thee in his arms, he shall answer to me on the subject of my suit.’   “‘Then demand that answer now,’ said a voice from without the door, which was at the same time slowly opened—‘Demand that answer now; for here stands Ralph Bridgenorth.’”—Peveril of the Peak.
Feb 1846
British Institution, London
no. 428 The Farmer's Daughter
4 May 1846
Royal Academy
no. 670 The Breakfast Table "The Stratagem of Youth often outwits the experience of age."
Feb 1847
British Institution, London
no. 103 A Study from the Hotel Invalides, Paris
no. 272 A French Study
no. 281 La Tristesse

3 May 1847
Royal Academy
no. 606 Portrait of Robert Manning, Esq.
no. 746 The Vicar of Wakefield, when prepared for church on the first Sundayafter his loss of fortune, reproving his wife and daughters for appearing in their usual finery

1 May 1848
Royal Academy
no.  1249 A ball-room in the year 1760
“Now let the youth to whose superior place
It first belongs the splendid ball to grace,
With humble bow and ready hand, prepare
Forth from the crowd to lead his chosen fair;
The fair shall not his kind request deny,
But to the pleasing toil with equal ardour fly.”


7 May 1849
Royal Academy
no.  497 Academy for Instruction in the Discipline of the Fan
6 May 1850
Royal Academy
no. 525 Too Truthful
“So very like a painter drew,
That every eye the picture knew:
He hit complexion, feature, air,
So just, the life itself was there;
He gave each muscle all its strength,
The mouth, the chin, the nose’s length,
His honest pencil touched with truth,
And marked the date of age and youth.
He lost his friends, his practice failed;
Truth should not always be revealed.”—Gay.

8 Feb 1851
British Institution, London
no. 28 Scandal
no. 403 La Petite Dieppoise

5 May 1851
Royal Academy
no.  817 An Awkward Position (from Oliver Goldsmith)

3 May 1852
Royal Academy
no. 618 The Grisette "In a few minutes the Grisette came in with her box of lace..."
2 May 1853
Royal Academy
no. 470 Brunetta and Phillis (from Spectator no. 80)
1 May 1854
Royal Academy
no.  314 First class,--the meeting. “And at first meeting loved.”
​
no.  361, Second class—the parting. “Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor.”
7 May 1855
Royal Academy
no.  355 A Contrast "Will fortune never come with both hands full?"
1855
Liverpool Academy
no. 183 An Awkward Position
1856
Liverpool Academy
no. 240 The Fan 
​
"Mr Spectator,- Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear. I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court." Vide, Spectator, no 10.
5 May 1856
Royal Academy
no.  486 The Bride  “We may not know,
While life endures, whose lot is joy, whose woe,
Whose is the sunlight, whose shall be the shade.”
no. 533, Doubtful fortune
“We know we’re cheated, yet would fain believe.”

1857
Liverpool Academy
no. 193 Waiting for the Verdict (wins £100 prize)

4 May 1857
Royal Academy
no.  562 Waiting for the Verdict
1858
Liverpool Society of Fine Arts
no. 706 The Flight
3 May 1858
Royal Academy
no.  228 The Flight
no. 454 “In silks and satins new, and hoop of monstrous size…”—Goldsmith
no. 558, “The lion in love.”—Old Proverb

1859
Liverpool Academy
no. 498 A Study
2 May 1859
Royal Academy
no. 243.  “Ici on Rase”—Brittany
​
no. 293, The fox and the grapes
no. 557, “Not Guilty.” Companion picture to Waiting for the Verdict exh. 1857
Nov 1859
Gambart’s French Gallery 7th Annual Winter Exhibition
no. 139 Study
7 May 1860
Royal Academy
no.  478 Drowned! Drowned!
1860
Liverpool Society of Fine Arts
no. 433 Drown'd! Drown'd"
"the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make whips to scourge us."

11 Feb 1861
British Institution, London
no. 20 Art Critics in Brittany
6 May 1861
Royal Academy
no.  108 Consolation
no. 464 La Malade Imaginaire

1861
Liverpool Society of Fine Arts
no. 383 Consolation
1 May 1862
International Exhibition of Art and Industry, South Kensington
3 works shown
5 May 1862
Royal Academy
no.  471 The Lost Found
“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:…”—Psalm xxxii

POSTHUMOUS
1864
Liverpool Institute of Fine Arts
no. 259 The Spinning Girl
no. 338 The Box Girl

1897
Victorian Era Exhibition, Earl's Court, London
no. 316 Waiting for the Verdict Lent by C. J. Lucas Esq.
no. 323 The Acquittal Lent by C. J. Lucas Esq.

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