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🎨 #SimeonSolomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, #DOTD 14 August 1905. #Art #Painting
August 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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On sleep's #fringe
closed eyes feel the light
through a cloudy skies
a shaft beams through

It's the restless moon
coming looking for you

Her lover

Art ~ "The Moon and Sleep"
by #SimeonSolomon 1894
February 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
🎨 #SimeonSolomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, #DOTD 14 August 1905. #Art #Painting
August 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
🎨 #SimeonSolomon, English painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, was #BOTD 9 October 1840. #Art #Painting
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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"Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene" by Simeon Solomon (British) - Watercolor on paper / 1864 - Tate Britain (London, England) #WomenInArt #SimeonSolomon #Solomon #TateBritain #art #artText #arte #Watercolor #Watercolour #VictorianArt #BritishArt #PreRaphaelite #Pre-Raphaelite #1860sArt
Painted in 1864, this watercolor belongs to British artist Simeon Solomon’s early, ambitious engagement with classical and poetic subjects. Solomon, still a young artist in his twenties and closely associated with Pre-Raphaelite circles, turned to Sappho as a figure through whom desire, lyric beauty, and ambiguous identity could be imagined with unusual frankness. Two young women sit close together on a curved stone bench inside a lush, enclosed garden. At left, Erinna wears a soft rose-pink robe that slips from one shoulder, exposing part of her upper chest and emphasizing the tenderness and vulnerability of the pose. At right, Sappho leans in, dressed in warm yellow-gold drapery, her arm wrapped around Erinna as their faces nearly touch. Their dark hair, pale skin, and calm, inward expressions create a mood of stillness rather than drama. Around them, Solomon scatters symbolic details like petals and flowers on the ground, two doves perched behind them, a darker bird nearby, a small deer beside Erinna, and, near Sappho, the attributes of poetry and music. The figures feel both intimate and ceremonial, suspended in a private world of touch and affection. Victorian viewers often linked Sappho and Erinna romantically, even though that historical pairing is now understood to be anachronistic. That tension matters as the painting is not a documentary reconstruction of antiquity, but a 19th-century dream of female intimacy, literary companionship, and queer longing. Solomon makes that longing legible without making it crude. The doves suggest paired love. The darker bird introduces unease or interruption. The deer evokes a sacred, poetic realm. The result is delicate but radical. It's an image that treats closeness between women as cultured, beautiful, and emotionally serious rather than marginal. Tate acquired the work in 1980, and it remains one of Solomon’s most resonant pieces on desire, classicism, and imagined lesbian history.
April 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
antinousgaygod.bsky.social
🪷 British Pre-Raphaelite painter #SimeonSolomon, born 9 Oct 1840, was jailed in 1873 for sex in a London public lavatory. He continued to paint in prison. He died in ignominy 14 Aug 1905. He is a saint of #Antinous! Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/08/famo... 🪷
August 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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🪷 British Pre-Raphaelite painter #SimeonSolomon, born 9 October 1840, was jailed in 1873 for sex in a London public lavatory. He continued to paint in prison. He died in ignominy 14 August 1905. He is a saint of #Antinous! Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/08/famo... 🪷
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
antinousgaygod.bsky.social
🪷 British Pre-Raphaelite painter #SimeonSolomon, born 9 October 1840, was jailed in 1873 for lewd behavior in a London public lavatory. He continued to paint in prison. He died in ignominy 14 August 1905. He is a saint of #Antinous! Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/08/famo... 🪷
August 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
supergays-botd.bsky.social
English painter, writer and notorious homosexual Simeon Solomon was BOTD in 1840. #simeonsolomon #supergays #bornonthisday
Simeon Solomon
English painter and writer Simeon Solomon was BOTD in 1840. Born in London to a wealthy Jewish family, he studied painting at the Royal Academy where he met Dante Gabriel Rossetti and became involv…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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New memorial to #SimeonSolomon to be installed at Willesden Jewish Cemetery http://bit.ly/1dNhRNO
February 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM