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Exhibited
London, The New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1907.
Marie Stillman spent many of her childhood summers on the Isle of Wight, her father having acquired a number of properties there by the late 1860s. A host of artistic and literary figures - Julia Margaret Cameron, Sarah Prinsep, G. F. Watts, Edward Lear - would spend their summers on the island, creating 'a kind of Little Holland House-on-sea'.
Stillman painted Arreton a number of times - The Old Church, Arreton Manor, The Farm at Arreton, all 1908. Her late husband William, who died in 1901, had buried his son, Russie - a son from his first marriage - at Arreton in 1875.1
1David B. Elliott, A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman & William James Stillman, ACC, 2006, passim.