The Governess

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Victorian-era painting painting

"The Governess" is a Victorian-era painting by British artist Rebecca Solomon that explores themes of class, gender, and social isolation through the figure of a middle-class woman employed in a wealthy household.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
The Governess, or The Poor Teacher	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Victorian-era painting ⓘ painting ⓘ
artHistoricalContext	Victorian social realism ⓘ nineteenth-century British painting ⓘ
artist	Rebecca Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
creator	Rebecca Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ
creatorGender	female ⓘ
creatorMovement	Pre-Raphaelite-influenced Victorian art ⓘ
creatorNationality	British ⓘ
creatorSibling	Abraham Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ Simeon Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalContext	Victorian Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
depictionFocus	emotional isolation of the governess ⓘ
depicts	Victorian domestic interior ⓘ children of an upper-class family ⓘ contrast between governess and employers ⓘ governess ⓘ middle-class woman ⓘ wealthy household ⓘ
depictsTimePeriod	Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ
emotionalTone	contemplative ⓘ melancholic ⓘ
genre	genre painting ⓘ
hasLanguage	none (visual artwork) ⓘ
mainSubject	class ⓘ gender ⓘ social isolation ⓘ
medium	oil paint ⓘ
movement	Victorian art ⓘ
notableFor	critique of class inequality ⓘ critique of gender constraints ⓘ early feminist perspective in Victorian painting ⓘ sympathetic portrayal of a governess ⓘ
portrays	ambiguous social status of governesses ⓘ tension between intimacy and distance in domestic service ⓘ
relatedWork	paintings on governesses in Victorian art ⓘ
setting	upper-middle-class Victorian home ⓘ
subjectOccupation	governess ⓘ
subjectSocialClass	middle class ⓘ
theme	class distinctions ⓘ domestic service ⓘ female employment ⓘ gender roles ⓘ loneliness ⓘ marginalization ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ

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Rebecca Solomon → notableWork → The Governess ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Governess, or The Poor Teacher