Painter. He was a visionary painter of the 19th century, who was the only Jewish member of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1848 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Born the youngest of eight children, his father was Meyer Solomon, a Leghorn hat manufacturer, and his wife Catherine. His family had several artists including an older brother, Abraham Solomon. Some of his cousins used the surname of "Salaman". He began his art studies in 1856 at the Royal Academy Schools. It was in 1858 that Solomon exhibited his first Royal Academy work, a drawing entitled "Isaac Offered", and two additional drawings at the Ernest Gambart's Winter Exhibition. He continued Biblical-themed paintings and to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1872. He met Rossetti in 1858, then met Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones in 1860, and finally, fell under the influence of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whose shared his desires and with whom he had an intense emotional relationship. He was arrested in February of 1873 and again in 1874 while in Paris for erotic behavior, which was a criminal offense in Victorian England subject to jail sentencing and fees. His well-recognized 1860 "The Mother of Moses" is being exhibited in the 21st century at the Delaware Art Museum in the United States. He painted "In the Temple of Venus" in 1863, "Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene" in 1864, and "Habet!" in 1865, which is considered by many critics to be Solomon's masterpiece. He developed a large following of supportive friends, who were artists and writers of the day, along with numerous of devoted patrons in Europe and the United States. From 1892 the artist's paintings were being sold on Oxford Street by W. A. Mansell & Co. A twenty-year battle with alcoholism caused a decline in his physical and mental health, becoming a pavement-artist. With complications of alcohol abuse, bronchitis, and acute rheumatism, he died while sitting at the dining room table at the at St. Giles work-house in Holborn. In 2014 His crumbling gravestone was repaired. Apart from his notable paintings and drawings he also wrote the prose-poem "A Vision of Love in Sleep". His paintings are on permanent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wightwick Manor and at Leighton House.