Study for St. George

Solomon Joseph Solomon, RA, PRBA

c. 1906

Pencil and grey wash heightened with white

13x 61/4 inches

Inscribed under mount 'Sketch of Sl, George/for RA Picture/ Solomon J Solomon'

Exhibited Royal Academy, 1906, no. 295

This masterly drawing was a study for the artist's RA Diploma Picture, a late flowering of almost baroque draughtsmanship, learned from his tutor Gabanel in Paris and as theatrical as those of his friends Charles Haslewood Shannon and Arthur Hacker. In the Great War, Lieutenant Colonel Solomon became a pioneering camofleur with the Royal Engineers, disguising trenches and military targets from air attack. — Rupert Maas

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Bibliography

The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Exhibition Catalogue. Ed. Susan Tumarkin Goodman. London: Merrell; New York: Jewish Museum, 2001.

Maas, Rupert. British Pictures. London: The Maas Gallery. 2006. Catalogue number 35.

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