author
Vera Salomons
Best remembered as the founder of Jerusalem’s L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, this private, independently minded British writer also published finely illustrated studies of eighteenth-century French artists. Her life joined scholarship, collecting, and philanthropy in an unusual way.
1 Audiobook
Choffard
by Vera Salomons
About the author
Born in London in 1888, Vera Frances Bryce Salomons came from a prominent Anglo-Jewish family. Sources describe her as a notably private woman, and much of her public legacy centers on her cultural and philanthropic work rather than personal publicity.
As an author, she wrote and illustrated books on the eighteenth-century French artists Gravelot, Choffard, and Charles Eisen. The Royal Academy of Arts catalog lists these works among her associated books, showing her serious interest in art history and book illustration.
She is now most widely remembered for founding and funding the L. A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem. The Jewish Women’s Archive portrays her as an elusive but significant figure whose long commitment to Jewish life and to cultural work in Jerusalem shaped the institution she created.