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William Barnes Wollen (1857–1936) was born in Leipzig he was educated in London before beginning a formal art education at the Slade School. In his early career he painted sporting scenes but gradually developed into a painter of battle scenes.
Monk’s House, where this painting hangs, was bought in 1919 by the writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf. Its tranquil location in the village of Rodmell, three miles south-east of Lewes, afforded them a relaxing space away from the bustle of London.
Hilda Montalba was an English-born artist, one of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba. In the later part of the nineteenth century the family was based in Venice having moved there from their home in Notting Hill. The landscapes and the citizens of Venice proved a fruitful source of inspiration much as they had done for artists for centuries before this.