Villa Sonneville was built in 1926 by architect Auguste Georges Dubois at the request of Albert Sonneville, a wool merchant and painter, who used it as a home for his studio and personal museum.

Albert Sonneville was appointed Officier d'Académie in 1926, then Officier de l'Instruction Publique in 1935. An avid collector, he possessed one of the largest art collections in the region. Inspired by Northern France, the iconography of his work remains marked by large-format landscapes with broad flat tints, which he applied to vast, uncluttered compositions. The artist also liked to depict the Dordogne, a place where he enjoyed retreating. An article about the XVth exhibition of Artistes Roubaisiens, attests to the excellent reception of his work and its plastic qualities:"Those who have followed Albert Sonneville's work, as we have, know with what sensitivity, what comprehensive emotion, he evokes the nobility, the melancholy grandeur of our beautiful and solitary landscapes of the Dordogne, Flanders and the Île de France. Of course, one can only paint like this, putting so much soul into one's work, if one has first loved one's subject. This leads the artist to a sincerity of expression that is one of his great qualities. To achieve such unity, as in his mill, for example, where the tonal relationships are so studied. The harmony of lines so well established, he had to give himself entirely to his work." Journal de Roubaix October 18, 1933.

His studio at 42, rue des fabricants, is open to numerous artistic events, exhibitions and conferences, notably those organized by the Muse de Nadaud.