Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 – 14 August 1905) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life[1] and same-sex desire.

He was the eighth and last child born to merchant Michael (Meyer) Solomon and artist Catherine (Kate) Levy.

As a student at the Royal Academy Schools, Solomon was introduced through Dante Gabriel Rossetti[5] to other members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, as well as the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and the painter Edward Burne-Jones in 1857.

He assured the reader that "there is not a sentence in it which could raise a blush to the cheek of the often quoted 'young person', for whose moral welfare reviewers are so solicitous.

[6] His work was collected by such figures as Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Count Eric Stenbock, and Walter Pater.

[15] Examples of his work are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, at Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton, and at Leighton House in west London.