The painter William Barnes Wollen was a man who had to face the horrors of war. The young artist gained these formative experiences when he was commissioned by a London weekly newspaper in 1900 to travel to South Africa for journalistic purposes. There, together with other selected artists, he was to document the events of the Second Boer War in the form of illustrations, which were subsequently published by the newspaper. Barnes Wollen also processed the experiences of the South African Boer Battles in a short story and a series of paintings. The battle scenes created in the process, designed down to the smallest detail, transport the viewer directly into the events on the battlefield and impressively convey the unvarnished harshness of warlike conflicts. With regard to the documentation of war events, the artist is said to have thought that drawings and paintings would be a much more precise medium than photography to capture the cruelty of the battles. Likewise, Barnes Wollen painted pictures of the battles of the First World War and thematized the battles of the Anglo-Afghan wars, whereby his paintings can be regarded as a testimony to historical warfare.
Originally William Barnes Wollen, born in 1857, grew up in Leipzig, Prussia, but decided to move to England with his family. He received his artistic education at the renowned London University College School and the Slade School of Fine Arts. After successfully completing his art studies, the young painter exhibited his works almost every year at the prestigious London Royal Academy and the American National Watercolor Society. There he initially presented realistic paintings of sporting events, such as the Rugby League games, but from 1881 he began to produce paintings with military content. He not only painted contemporary battles, but also staged historical battles, such as those of the American War of Independence. He also worked as an illustrator for magazines and collaborated with the famous English novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, for whose novels and short stories he produced numerous pictures. In addition, Barnes Wollen took part with his artistic works in the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, where he was awarded a silver medal for his extraordinary achievements. However, William Barnes Wollen spent most of his artistic career in London, where he also spent the rest of his life.
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.jpg "The Attack on La Haye Sainte by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Ashanti Expedition, Occupation of Coomassie by the British Troops, 17 January 1896 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Black Mountain Expedition, Advanced Post of Northumberland Fusiliers beyond Bagrwan by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Graeco-Turkish War, the Skirmish of Mont St Elias, at Nazaros, on the Macedonian Frontier by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Battle of Abu Klea, 17th January 1885, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Fenian attack on the police van in Manchester, 1867, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Indian Frontier Rising, Fighting in the Tseri-Kandao Pass, the 15th and 36th Sikhs Attacking the Village which they Took and Held for the Night by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Studies for the Oil Painting, The Flag: Albuhera, May 16, 1811 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Autumn Cavalry Manoeuvres on the Berkshire Downs, Artillery taking up Position by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Military Tournament at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Royal Horse Artillery Galloping by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "English Civil War in 1645, 1900 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Territorials at Pozieres on 23rd July 1916 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Duke of Wellington")
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.jpg "The Coldstream Guards at Landrecies, August 1914 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Battle of Abu Klea, 17th January 1885 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Our Little Contemptibles, 1914 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Sergeant Ewart capturing the Eagle at Waterloo by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Quorn by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Graeco-Turkish War by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, Beecher")
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.jpg "Rugby Union Football, Well Saved! Hard Lines! by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Prince of Wales Inspecting Mr Walter Gilbey")
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.jpg "Across Mongolia, the Sacred City of Ourga by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Hunting Sketches, a Meet of the Quorn at Ashby Folville by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The 5th Division Storming by Escalade the Ramparts of San Vincente, illustration from")
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.jpg "Palaver between Ashanti Envoys and Governor Maxwell in the Billiard-Room at Cape Coast Castle by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Volunteers and Regulars in Middlesex Training for Outpost Duty by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Military Police of Burmah by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "A Meet of the Grafton Hunt at Astwell Mills by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Battle of Lexington, 19th April 1775 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Gordon Highlanders and Their Doughty Deeds of the Past by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Advance towards Dongola, laying the Railway through the Battlefield of Ferket by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Thackwell at Sobraon, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Sketches in Burmah, a Buddhist Monastery by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Parade of the London Fire Brigade Before the Prince of Wales by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Chartist Demonstration on Kennington Common by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Hampshire Mounted Infantry in Burmah, a Sudden Attack by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Across Mongolia, the Sacred City of Ourga by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Bloody Sunday: The Life Guards holding Trafalgar Square by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Battle of Evesham on 4th August 1265, from")
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.jpg "Fire in the Prince of Wales")
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.jpg "Capture of French Guns by the Union Brigade at Waterloo by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Uniforms of the British Army in 1855 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Graeco-Turkish War, the Retreat of the Greeks After the Battle of Domoko, the Rear-Guard Fighting Its Way Through the Phourka Pass by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Eastern Crisis by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Master John Horseleigh, Knight, by Thomas Hardy by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Mob Boarding a Grain Ship at Garry Kennedy AD 1841 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Waterloo:")
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.jpg "The Army Point-to-Point Races in Belvoir Vale, Leicestershire by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Mashonaland Expedition, British South Africa Police crossing a Stream by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Oakley Hunt by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "A Day with the Culmstock Otter Hounds by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Oakley Hunt, going to cover by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Sketches of Oodeypore and Rajputana by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Incidents of Last Year")
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.jpg "Sketches in Burmah by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Grafton Hunt by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Opening of the Imperial Institute, Royal Horse Artillery firing a Salute in Hyde Park by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The fusiliers at Albuera by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Death of Cardinal Manning by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Indian Frontier Rising, with Westmacott")
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.jpg "The Soudan Advance, the 11th Soudanese Charging the Dervishes in the Fight at Abu Hamed by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Indian Frontier Rising by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2nd September 1898 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Duke of Wellington")
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.jpg "Street Fighting in Malaga, 1869, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Ashanti Expedition, Passage of the Houssa Artillery over the River Busum Prah by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Military Tournament, No 10 Mountain Battery passing over a Spar-Bridge crossing a Break in a Mountain Pass by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Making the Running by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Queen reviewing the Troops at Aldershot on 13 July, the Scots Greys galloping past by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The May Races at Oxford by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Derby, Going Down to the Starting Post by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Volunteer Review, Departure of the Artists Corps from Victoria Railway Station by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Norman Ramsay at Fuentes de Onoro, 5th May 1811, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Oxford and Yale Universities")
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.jpg "Studies for the Oil Painting, The Flag: Albuhera, May 16, 1811 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Sketches of the Camp of Exercise, Held at Secunderabad, India by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Spanish-American War, Officers and Men of the United States Navy by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Calcutta Races, Vanitas winning the Viceroy")
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.jpg "Study for the Oil Painting")
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.jpg "The Trouble in the Transvaal, Dr Jameson and his Men being escorted as Prisoners after the Battle of Doornkop by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The French in the Malakoff 1855 AD by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Royal Wedding by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Battle of Aughrim, July 12th 1691 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Grafton Hunt by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Arrival of the Mail Coach by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Autumn Military Manoeuvres, Sketches on the Way from Aldershot by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Devon and Somerset Hounds by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Guarding the Railway Near Mukden by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Jack")
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.jpg "Rioting in Belfast, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Last Stand of the 44th at Gundamuck, an Incident in the First Afghan War by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Studies for the Oil Painting, The Flag: Albuhera, May 16, 1811 by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Our Success in the Soudan, the Advance of the Grand Army of the Nile from Shabluka to Omdurman by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "The Royal Veterinary College and Hospital, Camden Town by William Barnes Wollen")
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.jpg "Master John Horseleigh, Knight, by Thomas Hardy by William Barnes Wollen")
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