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Vera Salomons
An elusive art lover and philanthropist, she wrote on 18th-century French illustration while still young and later became best known for founding the L. A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem.
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Choffard
by Vera Salomons
About the author
Born in London in 1888, Vera Frances Salomons came from the prominent Salomons family and developed a deep interest in French art and culture. Reliable reference sources describe her as a private, hard-to-pin-down figure who published books on eighteenth-century French illustrators early in life.
She is remembered most clearly for her philanthropy. Jewish Women's Archive and the Museum for Islamic Art both note that her long commitment to Jewish life in Jerusalem culminated in the founding and funding of the L. A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art, a project closely tied to her love of art and collecting.
Salomons spent her later years in Switzerland and died in 1969. Although relatively little survives about her personal life, the record that does remain shows someone whose writing, collecting, and philanthropy were all driven by unusually focused cultural passions.