pre-raphaelisms:Simeon Solomon - Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1869I just came across t
pre-raphaelisms:Simeon Solomon - Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1869I just came across this fascinating figure while preparing a course on LGBTQ Jewish History… Simeon Solomon was a British Jew and Pre-Raphaelite painter, who was friends with such figures as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Edward Burne-Jones. In 1873 he was arrested for “the abominable crime of buggery” in a public restroom in London, and unfortunately the resulting scandal alienated him from his former colleagues, many of whom who feared being exposed themselves. He continued to work but was hardly recognized; he sank into alcoholism and died in 1905 in the Saint Giles workhouse.He published one prose-poem in 1871, “A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep,” and was well-known in his time for his paintings and illustrations of Biblical and Jewish themes. This painting is believed to be one of the earliest artistic depictions of Sappho as a lesbian. -- source link
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