The Friend in Need, from "Illustrated London News"

April 23, 1859

Not on view

This print reproduces a painting by the Victorian artist Rebecca Solomon whose brothers Abraham Solomon and Simeon Solomon were also artists. After studies at the Spitalfields School of Design, Rebecca became a draftsman on wood, illustrator, assistant to her brother Abraham, copyist for John Everett Millais, and exhibited her own oils and watercolors at the Royal Academy and other venues. In this contemporary genre subject, a destitute mother and child seek charity outside a public institution (a poster suggests a missionary society), but are shooed away by a beadle, as a sympathetic woman and girl offer assistance. The wood engraving appeared in the "Illustrated London News," to mark the painting’s exhibition in 1859 at the gallery of Louis Victor Flatou, a London dealer who offered art lovers an alternative to the Royal Academy.

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Title: The Friend in Need, from "Illustrated London News"
Artist: After Rebecca Solomon (British, London 1832–1886 London)
Date: April 23, 1859
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 10 3/8 in. (30.8 × 26.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2016
Object Number: 2016.774.7
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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