Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I

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Property from a British Private Collection

Simeon Solomon

The Child Jeremiah

Auction Closed

July 6, 10:53 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a British Private Collection


Simeon Solomon

London 1840–1905

The Child Jeremiah


signed with monogram and dated lower right: 1861 

oil on canvas

unframed: 35 x 25.5 cm.; 13½ x 10 in.

framed: 50 x 40 cm.; 19½ x 15½ in.

Purchased from the artist by Ernest Abraham Hart c. 1862;

Myer Salaman (1836–1896), a friend of the artist;

Thence by descent to his great-grand-daughter.

S. Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon, Slad 1984, reproduced p. 175, pl. 23.

London, Royal Academy, 1862, no. 487;

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; and London, Ben Uri Gallery – The London Museum of Jewish Art, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2005−6, no. 38.

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