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"General Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings." The Art-Journal, 1 April 1865: 111.

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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