The painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Far too black”: Fanny Eaton, Simeon Solomon, and The Mother of Moses

“…It is the simultaneous availability of both responses that distinguishes the Pre-Raphaelite artistic project." [6] Art historian Jan Marsh has also argued in regard to female models among the Pre-Raphaelites that the models could have opportunities for agency, "taking part in the creative process." [7] This means that many of the models did not just pose for the artists but portrayed characters and, according to Marsh, were "'cast' in a specific role," a proposition that argues for their more "active participation in the picture-making process."…”

“…His art, in turn, largely focused on representations of Israelite figures and narratives from the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Torah and the Prophets, or the Old Testament) as well as depictions of Jewish religious and cultural traditions (figs. 6,7), drawing on the past but creating innovative subjects for a new audience. These Hebraic subjects, then, were welcomed, even expected, from Solomon, by Jews and Gentiles alike because he was Jewish, and it was tacitly assumed that he was an expert on his people, unchanged from the past.…”

“Far too black”: Fanny Eaton, Simeon Solomon, and The Mother of Moses (original version)

“…It is the simultaneous availability of both responses that distinguishes the Pre-Raphaelite artistic project." [6] Art historian Jan Marsh has also argued in regard to female models among the Pre-Raphaelites that the models could have opportunities for agency, "taking part in the creative process." [7] This means that many of the models did not just pose for the artists but portrayed characters and, according to Marsh, were "'cast' in a specific role," a proposition that argues for their more "active participation in the picture-making process."…”

“…His art, in turn, largely focused on representations of Israelite figures and narratives from the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Torah and the Prophets, or the Old Testament) as well as depictions of Jewish religious and cultural traditions (figs. 6,7), drawing on the past but creating innovative subjects for a new audience. These Hebraic subjects, then, were welcomed, even expected, from Solomon, by Jews and Gentiles alike because he was Jewish, and it was tacitly assumed that he was an expert on his people, unchanged from the past.…”