Abraham Soloman was a painter of historical and contempory Genre, he first took his subjects from Scott, Sterne, Moliere and in this instant Oliver Goldsmith. This scene from Goldsmith's-The Vicar of Wakefield-shows the Vicar, Dr Primrose surrounded by his family. Godsmith describes the Vicar, as combining 'the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family', who is 'simple in affluence and majestic in adversity.'