Simeon Solomon Born October 9th

  

Youngest of eight chidren, Simeon Solomon was born on October 9th, 1840 in London into a family of painters. Letters tell that Solomon and Algernon Swinburne chased each other naked through painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house. Solomon was arrested for the crime of buggery in 1873 and was fined but walked away free, thanks to his class. Solomon would find the world of art and its sources to be closed to him because of his sexuality and he died of heart failure exacerbated by alcoholism.

Read Simeon Solomon - Painter of Androgynes   and Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites  .