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"General Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings." The Art-Journal, 1 April 1865: 111.
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The human figure — which demands closer study than landscape — does not
obtain justice at the hands of the tyros within these walls. For the
most part, the figure drawings in this exhibition confess to a timid,
uncertain hand, wanting the guidance of knowledge. A few of the more
conspicuous attempts may be passed in review. Miss Rebecca Solomon, in
‘Hypatia’ (221), has hit upon a manner which does not fail to arouse
attention. The stately stiffness in the heroine’s bearing, has quite
the air of originality. In ‘Prima Vera’ (255), this artist has been
haunted with reminiscences of the style of Mr. Leighton. More power
over the figure is shown in ‘Antinuous Dionysiacus’ (239), by S.
Solomon.
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