Great Hall Windows Replacement // Learn More
The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

Print this page

Collections

First Class: The Meeting ... and at First Meeting LovedEnlarge image

First Class: The Meeting ... and at First Meeting Loved, 1854

Abraham Solomon
British, 1824 - 1862
oil on canvas
69 x 97 cm
Purchased 1964
National Gallery of Canada (no. 14667)

Abraham Solomon was a painter of Jewish heritage, whose brother Simeon and sister Rebecca were also artists. He studied at the Royal Academy in London and began his career with historical and literary subjects. "First Class: The Meeting ... and at First Meeting Loved" brought the artist his first critical success when it was exhibited at the Academy in 1854 and marks a shift in his work to contemporary subject matter. The flirtatious nature of the encounter between the young woman and man was thought scandalous by Solomon's Victorian audience, and he felt obliged to paint a second version in which the older man is awake and sits between the couple, talking to the younger man.

Categories

International

Audioguide

Audioguide (1 min 12 sec)

Media

No Media

Library and Archives

Search for catalogue entries

Extras

No Extras