Camille Solon
Camille Antoine Arnoux Solon (1877–1960) was a British muralist and ceramist of French descent. He was born in Staffordshire, England to French parents. In his 30s he emigrated to the US, where he worked with architect Julia Morgan, painting murals and designing tile work for Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's estate at San Simeon, California. Early life 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 Roman Catholic boarding school in a rural part of Staffordshire. He stayed there till 1892. He received tuition in art from his father and later studied at the Slade School, University College London. Work In the years leading up to World War I Solon lived in Draycott in the Moors, where he was recorded in the 1901 census. His occupation was listed as "Faience