‘Stonehenge, August 25th 1879’ (drawing)

‘Stonehenge, August 25th 1879’. Drawing from a sketchbook by William Barns Wollen, 1879. Wollen exhibited many paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1879. He was highly regarded for his battle paintings and, as a ‘special’ artist with 'The Sphere', he went to South Africa to cover the Boer War (1899-1902). By 1916, in the midst of the First World War, Wollen’s romantic depictions of military glory were increasingly condemned in the press as predictable and conventional. From a collection of 43 sketchbooks of pencil, pen and ink drawings, 1874-1924.