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REBECCA SOLOMON (1832-1886)

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Spending a Sou
(engraving after oil on canvas, 1858)

This page is the first attempt to create a published bibliography of resources about Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886), Simeon Solomon's sister. She was an artist in her own right and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Dudley Gallery. As with the secondary sources for Simeon, this bibliography should not be considered to be complete, but a sample of resources the most important resources available on Rebecca Solomon. Citations are arranged chronologically. The full-text links below are reviews where Rebecca's work was reviewed either along with Simeon's or alone.

"The Royal Academy. The Exhibition, 1854." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1854: 167.

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"The Exhibition of the Royal Academy." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1857: 165.

NEW "Spending a Sou." Illustrated London News, 4 December 1858: 518-519.

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"The Winter Exhibition." The Art-Journal, 1 December 1859: 377.

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"The Royal Academy Exhibition: The Ninety-Second, 1860." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1860: 168.

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"Exhibition of the Royal Academy [continued]." The Art-Journal, 1 July 1861: 197.

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“The Royal Academy. [Second Notice.]” The Critic, 17 May 1862: 492-493.

"The Royal Academy." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1863: 112.

"The Royal Academy." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1864: 161.

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

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"The Royal Academy." The Art-Journal, 1 June 1865: 169.

"General Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings. Dudley Gallery." The Art-Journal, 1 March 1866: 71.

"Royal Manchester Institution." The Art-Journal, 1 October 1867: 234.

"The Fourth General Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings. Dudley Gallery." The Art-Journal, 1 March 1868: 45.

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"Dudley Gallery. Cabinet Pictures in Oils. The Second Winter Exhibition." The Art-Journal, 1 December 1868: 280.

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The Claim for Shelter [engraving and description from her painting]. The Art-Journal, 1 June 1869: 184.

"The Royal Academy. The One Hundred and First Exhibition. Second Notice." The Art-Journal, 1 July 1869: 201.

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"The Dudley Gallery. Egyptian Hall." The Art-Journal, 1 December 1872: 309.

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"Society of Lady-Artists, Great Marlborough Street." The Art-Journal, May 1874: 146.

Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. English Female Artists. Vol. 2. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876.

Baldwin, A. W. The MacDonald Sisters. London: Peter Davies, 1960.

Wood, Christopher. “The Victorian Sale.” Christie’s Review of the Year 1968/1969. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1969.

Yeldham, Charlotte. Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France and England. 2 vols. New York; London: Garland, 1984.

Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. "Rebecca Solomon." Solomon, a Family of Painters: Abraham Solomon (1823-1862), Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886), Simeon Solomon (1840-1905). London: Inner London Education Authority, 1985.

Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. London: Women’s Press, 1987.

Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. “Rebecca Solomon’s A Young Teacher.” The Burlington Magazine, 130 (October 1988): 769-770.

Cherry, Deborah. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. London: Routledge, 1993.

Marsh, Jan and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999.

Kirchen, Anita. “Finding Their Voices: Jewish Women Artists in the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Diss. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 2003.

Vigué, Jordi. Great Women Masters of Art. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2003.

Ferrari, Roberto C. “Rebecca Solomon, Pre-Raphaelite Sister.” The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, 12:2 (Summer 2004): 23-36.

NEW Yeldham, Charlotte. "Rebecca Solomon" [part of entry on "Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists"]. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. Eds. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ferrari, Roberto C. “To the Rossettis, From the Solomons: Five Unpublished Letters.” Notes and Queries, 52:1 (March 2005): 70-75.

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