Virginia Woolf on Walter Sickert's painting 'Ennui' - with Hermione Lee

Virginia Woolf, the famous author, wrote an essay 'Walter Sickert: a conversation' on the painting of Ennui by Walter Richard Sickert in 1933, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. Woolf describes how she imagines the characters in the painting as an old publican, 'with his glass on the table before him and a cigar at his lips.'
Professor Dame Hermione Lee is a biographer and critic who was President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford University.
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[@ian4iPad2]

This is interesting but who chose the "background" music? I bet they've got a really annoying ringtone on their mobile too.
The Professor has a good voice, it doesn't need any accompaniment.

[@ronjohnson4566]

a lovely painting lost in time. how can you keep them down on the farm, after they've seen ennui?

[@ian4iPad2]

The painting and its title match perfectly, I wonder why Sickert wanted Woolf to construct a back story.