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The Breakfast Table

Image credit: Ben Uri Collection

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Solomon’s richly decorated interior of the family bungalow at Birchington, Kent (where his brother-in-law Delissa Joseph, had built him a second studio) depicts his wife, Ella, and youngest daughter, Iris, in the comfortable intimacy of the breakfast room. Iris is denoted only by her hand holding the newspaper and her dangling leg with its fashionable shoe. On the wall behind a selection of paintings by Solomon includes one of his older daughter, Mary, on her horse. A fine painter in the academic style, Solomon was a founder member of the Society of Portrait Painters, the first President of the Maccabeans (later the Jewish Educational Aid Society), and became only the second Jewish Royal Academician in 1906. During the First World War he pioneered camouflage work, sometimes in the thick of the fighting, despite being 54 at the outbreak of hostilities.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

The Breakfast Table

Date

1921

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 66.5 x W 48.5 cm

Accession number

2002-90

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mrs Ronald Rubenstein, 2002

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

SS/SJS

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Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

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