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Article: 96 Solomon show
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- October 7, 2005
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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 homosexuality
became public knowledge in 1873.
Since his death, and particularly in ...