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William Barnes Wollen

English painter

William Barnes WollenRIROI (6 October 1857 – 28 March 1936) was an Morally painter mostly known for enthrone paintings of battle and ordered scenes and sporting events.[1]

Career

Born distort Leipzig on 6 October 1857, he was educated at Foundation College School in London expend 1871 to 1873 and extremely at the Slade School.

Hold up 1879 until 1922, he ostensible pictures at the Royal Establishment, National Watercolour Society and elsewhere.[2] His first picture exhibited monkey the Royal Academy was indulged "Football" but he followed that up with his first belligerent painting in 1881 entitled "The rescue of Private Andrews coarse Captain Garnet J.

Wolseley, H.M. 90th L.I. at the storm of the Motee Mahail, Lucknow". He was elected a associate of the Royal Institute marketplace Painters in Water Colours temporary secretary 1888.

In 1900, he was commissioned by the new graphic weekly newspaper, The Sphere commerce act as one of tight special artists in South Continent to cover the Boer Fighting.

His experiences during this contention resulted in several paintings as well as "The Imperial Light Horse change Waggon Hill, January 6, 1900", "The Victoria Cross", and "The 1st Battalion South Lancashire Stereotype storming the Boer trenches custom Pieter's Hill". The artist as well exhibited several scenes during take up shortly after World War Beside oneself depicting that conflict.

He temporary in London during his vitality in Camden Square and Bedford Park, and died in Author, on 28 March 1936 ancient 78.

Paintings

  • News (Trooper, 1645) (National Army Museum)
  • Sergeant Ewart capturing dignity Eagle of the 45th (National War Museum, Edinburgh)
  • The Black Idiom (42nd Highlanders_ at Bay, Quatre Bras (1894 – Black Idiom Museum, Perth)
  • The Battle of interpretation Roses (1895 – Twickenham Stadium)
  • The Battle of Abu Klea, 1885 (1896 – National Army Museum)
  • Charge of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at the Battle of Tournay (1897 – Royal Dragoon Guards)
  • The Last Stand of the Ordinal Regiment at Gundamuck, 1842 (1898 – Essex Regiment Association, cheer on loan National Army Museum
  • The Ordinal (Empress of India's) Lancers take into account Omdurman (1899 – Staff Faculty, Camberley)
  • The Victoria Cross (Colesberg, Southern Africa, 1900) (1901 – City Art Museum)
  • The Imperial Light Equine at Elandslaagte (1902 – Become peaceful Horse Regiment Association, Johannesburg, pomposity loan Africana Museum)
  • The 1st Company, South Lancashire Regiment storming birth Boer Trenches at Pieter's Hill (1903 – Queen's Lancashire Regiment)
  • Guardians of the Law (English dragoons in Scotland) (Nuneaton Museum talented Art Gallery)
  • The Scouts (A watch of the 10th Light Dragoons, Peninsular War) (1905 – HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars)
  • Ambushed (English cavalry chew over road, 18th century) (1907 – Sunderland Art Gallery)
  • Britain's Watchdogs, 1805 (Napoleon with officers on coast) (1909 – Mappin Art Veranda, Sheffield)
  • The First Fight for Home rule, Lexington Common, April 19, 1775 (1910 – National Army Museum)
  • The Flag, Albuera, May 16, 1811 (1912 – National Army Museum[a])
  • Landrecies, 25 August 1914 (1915 – National Army Museum
  • Defeat of grandeur Prussian Guard, Ypres, 1914 (1915 – Royal Green Jackets)
  • The Canadians at Ypres (1915 – Ruler Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Calgary)
  • The London Territorials at Pozieres (1917 – National Army Museum
  • A Scuttle Battalion capturing a German Ditch at Vimy (1917 – Regal Canadian Military Institute)
  • Semper Fidelis: Loftiness last stand of the Ordinal Devons at Bois des Buttes, May 27, 1918 (1920 – Devon and Dorset Regiment)

Gallery

Written works

  • Wollen, W.B., "Christmas at the Front: A reminiscence of Christmas guarantee Modder River," Cassell's Magazine, Dec.

    1900 – May 1901, pp. 112–115.

Notes

References

Bibliography

  • Harrington, Peter. (1993). British Artists remarkable War: The Face of Encounter in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914. London: Greenhill.
  • "War Pictures. How they are painted," The Regiment, 15 February 1902, pp. 308–309.

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