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Article: 96; Solomon show.(Features)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2005
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Byline: By Alison Handley
THE centenary of Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is being celebrated in Birmingham this autumn.
Love Revealed, at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's Gas Hall, will run into the new year and highlights the precocious artistic talent of a leading member of the group of young artists formed around DG Rossetti in the 1860s and '70s.
His friend Edward Burne-Jones is said to have called him 'the greatest artist of us all'.
Solomon, who died in 1905 at the age of 65, enjoyed early critical success with his paintings of biblical and classical subjects, but his public career was effectively destroyed when his ...