Delane, Solomon (c.1727–1812), landscape painter, was the son of Robert Delane, clergyman, of Co. Tipperary, and his wife Sarah. He appears to have spent his childhood in Upper Coombe, Dublin. He studied art under Robert West (qv) and was awarded a premium of £2 by the Dublin Society Schools in 1750. His earliest known work is a portrait of Isaac Sparks (a well-known comedian in Dublin), of which he later produced a folio-sized etching (1752), but most of his work seems to have been in landscape. In 1755 he departed for Europe where he settled for extended periods in Rome, Vicenza and Livorno. He was in London in 1763, where he was elected a fellow of the Society of Artists, and returned to Rome the following year, where he was highly esteemed as a landscape artist in the classical style of Claude Lorrain (then in vogue with aristocratic collectors). In Rome he associated with other Irish artists, including Robert Crone (qv), Hugh Primrose Dean (qv), and James Forrester. Delane continued to travel, probably visiting Greece, as a picture entitled ‘Athens in its present state of ruin’ was exhibited at the Society of Artists in London (1776). His work was also shown at the Royal Academy between 1771 and 1784. He was elected a member of the Florentine academy on 17 July 1777, and visited Augsburg in 1781.
He returned to London in 1782, where two of his alpine landscapes were included in the Royal Academy exhibition, and to Dublin the following year, where he married and settled. Thereafter he exhibited only occasionally (in 1802 at Parliament House, and in 1812 at Hawkins Street), but continued to work and was evidently well regarded by contemporaries. He painted four views of Dublin (c.1787) for the 4th duke of Rutland (qv), viceroy of Ireland, and on 11 January 1797 was appointed Cork herald by patent. There are few known surviving works by Delane, and it has been speculated that many of his pictures were sold as Claude originals. He died in Dublin in 1812.