18 Facts About Rebecca Solomon

Rebecca Solomon was a 19th-century English Pre-Raphaelite draftsman, illustrator, engraver, and painter of social injustices.

Rebecca Solomon is the second of three children who all became artists, in a prominent Jewish family.

Rebecca Solomon was born on 26 September 1832, the youngest of the three daughters, and she was one of eight children born into an artistically-inclined Jewish merchant family in Bishopsgate in east London.

Rebecca Solomon's father was Michael Solomon, the first Jew to be honoured with the Freedom of the City of London; her mother was Catherine Levy.

Rebecca Solomon, took lessons at the Spitalfields School of Design.

Rebecca Solomon exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1852 and 1868, and at the Dudley Gallery and Gambart's French Gallery.

Rebecca Solomon worked in the studio of John Everett Millais, one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Rebecca Solomon worked with the second wave Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones.

Rebecca Solomon taught her younger brother, Simeon, much of what she learned from her assistant-ship to Millais.

Rebecca Solomon was active in contemporary social reform movements and in 1859 she joined a group of thirty-eight women artists petitioning the Royal Academy of Arts to open its schools to women, which led to the first woman, Laura Herford, being admitted to the Academy in 1860.

In 1886, Rebecca Solomon died aged 54, from injuries sustained after being run over by a hansom cab on the Euston Road in central London.

Rebecca Solomon used her visual images to critique ethnic, gender and class prejudice in Victorian England.

When Rebecca Solomon started painting genre scenes, her work demonstrated an observant eye for class, ethnic and gender discrimination.

Rebecca Solomon's paintings reflect a combination of interest in the theatre and commitment to social consciousness that is not exist in other artist's painting in the nineteenth century.

Rebecca Solomon is considered among the first women from a Jewish background to make a prominent career as a painter in Britain.

Rebecca Solomon's artworks were exhibited in numerous venues in England from 1850 through 1885.

Rebecca Solomon's painting Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet appeared in the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

At the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition, Rebecca Solomon exhibited almost annually between 1852 and 1869.