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Inscribed with title on label to the reverse
Thinned Oil on paper, 14 3/4 x 10 in. (37.5 x 25 cm.)
Size:
Height – 37.5cm x Width – 25cm
In a polished black and gold print frame with a gold inner slip
Dorothy Sims Williams studied at Stockport Art School (1926-8) and the
RA Schools (1928-33) under Walter Russell and F.E.Jackson. She cited
Holbein and Cezanne amongst her influences. She exhibited well over 50
works at The Society of Women Artists as well as the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters and Royal West of England Academy.
This design, which dates to her last year at The Royal Academy Schools shows
The Hebrew Bible credits Solomon as the builder of the First Temple in
Jerusalem and portrays him as great in wisdom, wealth, and power, but
ultimately as a king whose sin, including idolatry and turning away from
God, leads to the kingdom being torn in two during the reign of his son
Rehoboam.Solomon is the subject of many other later references and
legends.
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