Daily Telegraph reported that… ‘In the entrance hall [of White Lodge] the flowers were in gay profusion, but along the walls were chests and trunks, filled or being filled with wedding presents’. Many of the wedding presents, including this painting, a gift from the artist, were exhibited at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. Homerville Hague specialized in interior and exterior views of buildings and park scenes. He was presumably influenced by the Post-Impressionist movement and painting en plein air. He exhibited terracotta reliefs at the Royal Academy from 1885-90; and, from 1895 onwards, paintings.