£850
WILLIAM BARNES WOLLEN (BRITISH 1857-1936): A FINE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING ON PAPER OF THE KING EMPEROR GEORGE V INSPECTING HIS TROOPS AND HIS INDIAN CAVALRY CORPS DURING HIS VISIT TO INDIA
The painting in overall good condition, signed.
44cm x 37cm
Mounted 60cm x 46.5cm
Another pencil drawing to verso.
Born in Leipzig, Germany, Wollen was educated at University Collega nd at the Slade. He exhibited pictures of historical subjects and events at the R.A, the National Watercolour Society and elsewhere. His first military painting in 1881 was of the storming of the Motee Mahail in Lucknow, India, to a great acclaim. He was elected member of teh Royal Institute of Painters in watercolours in 1888. He covered the South African Boer War and after a highly successful career he died in London aged 79.
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