"Far too black" : Fanny Eaton, Simeon Solomon, and "The mother of Moses"

"Far too black" Fanny Eaton, Simeon Solomon, and "The mother of Moses"

In 1860 the Jewish artist Simeon Solomon exhibited at the Royal Academy in London a painting with a biblical theme entitled The Mother of Moses, for which his model was Fanny Eaton, a Jamaican-born, multiracial woman whose mother had been formerly enslaved. This article considers the creation, displ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nineteenth century art worldwide / Association of Historians of nineteenth century Art (AHNCA)
1. Verfasser: Ferrari, Roberto C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Eaton, Fanny > Solomon, Simeon > Geschichte 1860 > Schwarze Frau > Sklavin > Jüdin > Bildnis
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Zusammenfassung:In 1860 the Jewish artist Simeon Solomon exhibited at the Royal Academy in London a painting with a biblical theme entitled The Mother of Moses, for which his model was Fanny Eaton, a Jamaican-born, multiracial woman whose mother had been formerly enslaved. This article considers the creation, display, and reception of this early painting in Solomon’s oeuvre, with an emphasis on the racial, cultural, and sociopolitical implications of the painting’s subject vis-à-vis its model and a focus on historical and contemporaneous issues of slavery and emancipation for both Jewish and Black people at the time.
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ISSN:1543-1002