page_title: Camille Solon
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Camille Solon / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
context_page_description: Camille Antoine Arnoux Solon was a British muralist and ceramist of French descent. He was born in Staffordshire, England to French parents, and emigrated to the US, where he worked with architect Julia Morgan doing painting and tile work in the private libraries and indoor pools of William Randolph Hearst's mansions and estates at San Simeon, California.
context_section_description: Camille A. Solon was one of nine children born to Marie Antoinette Laure Arnoux and Louis Marc Solon. He was born on 27 March 1877 in Stoke-on-Trent, the centre of England's pottery industry.
  His mother was the daughter of Léon Arnoux, art director of Mintons Limited. His father had joined the same firm in 1870 and became the preeminent master of pâte-sur-pâte technique of porcelain decoration.
  In 1887, at the age of ten, Solon enrolled at Cotton College, a boarding school in a rural part of Staffordshire. He stayed there till 1892. He learned from his father and later studied at the Slade School, University College London.
caption: Minton vases designed by Camille Solon's father in the pâte-sur-pâte style, 1880, on display at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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