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...
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Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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.
