Christie's: THE FORBES COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN PICTURES AND WORKS OF ART: Lot 131
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)
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A Deacon signed with monogram and dated '63' (lower right) oil on canvas 14 x 10 in. (35 x 25.4 cm.) LITERATURE Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon, Stroud, 1984, p. 175. EXHIBITION London, Royal Academy, 1864, no. 273. NOTES Another of Solomon's sacerdotal subjects of the 1860s (see lot 132). This time the context is Anglo-Catholic. Like his friend Walter Pater, Solomon was fascinated by High Church and Roman Catholic practice and ritual. In later life, an outcast from society following his arrest for 'gross indecency' in 1873, he was to find shelter and consolation at the Carmelite Church in Church Street, Kensington.
