The naughtiest Victorian.(Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites)(Book review)

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | November 1, 2006| | Copyright

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites

Traveling exhibit, 2006

Catalog by curator Colin Cruise Merrill. 192 pages, $49.95

SIMEON SOLOMON, a gay, Jewish Pre-Raphaelite painter of the 19th century, has figured prominently in most studies of gay male painting, and there has been an upsurge in scholarly interest of late. However, it is still fair to say that his life story eclipses his artistic achievement. No wonder: in 1874, Solomon was among the first victims of a spate of high-profile prosecutions of gay men in London, convicted of ...

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