The life of Richard Caton Woodville, born in 1856, had been quite exciting from an early age. His father had died before his birth and so were the key caregivers in his still young life, first his sister and his mother. She was the daughter of a Düsseldorf architect and moved with her two children first from London to Saint Petersburg. From there, the path of the small family continued to Düsseldorf. There, Richard Caton Woodville studied junior painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and followed in the footsteps of his father and his mother.
His teachers were among others
Wilhelm Camphausen and
Eduard Gebhardt . Between 1875 and 1881 Richard Caton had to submerge Woodville. Reason was an arrest warrant for him because of trespassing. The painter went to Paris and studied here. His most important reference person was the history painter
Jean Leon Gerome . Later, the artist returned to London and made a name for himself primarily as a painter of military and wartime images. Above all, his experiences, which he had collected in 1877 on a journey through Albania and Montenegro, were helpful. There was the Russian-Turkish War at that time.
In 1882 he was also an eyewitness of war in Egypt. One of his major works is the Charge of the Light Brigade. There, Woodville recreates a scene from the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War of 1854.
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.jpg "The Battle of the Somme by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "A Night Entertainment during Ramazan, at Scutari, in Albania by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
 - (MeisterDrucke-77590).jpg "Battle of Balaclava, 25th October 1854, Relief of the Light Brigade (colour print) by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Horse and Bicycle Contest at the Agricultural Hall by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Sketches in Albania, a Meeting of the Albanian League by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battle of Ramillies, May 23rd 1706: The attack by the Irish Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Cynic Fortune, A Tale of a Man with a Conscience, by David Christie Murray by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Dolce Far Niente, Life in an Indian Bungalow by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Placing the Waterloo Colours of Second Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Chapel, Wellington Barracks by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Revolt in Albania, a Turkish Frontier Post by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Prince Albert Victor in India, catching Wild Elephants at the Government Khedah in the Mysore District by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Life in Albania, Gipsy Girls fishing by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Imperial Coronation at Moscow, Proclamation by the Heralds and Secretaries of the Senate by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Battle of Minden, August 1st 1759 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Mafeking 1900, Boer War by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Bear-Hunters in Montana, Victors and Vanquished by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Engagement at Vlakfontein, the Derbyshires retaking the Guns at the Point of the Bayonet by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The State of Ireland, serving a Process near Headford, Galway by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The British Troops Storm Seringapatan, the Capital of Sultan Tippu by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Charge of the 5th Lancers at the Battle of Elandslaagte by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The late Captain E A W Lendy, with the Sierra Leone Frontier Police, in the Expedition against the Sofas by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Expedition to Burmah, an Elephant Battery in Action by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Illustrations of the Dulcigno Question, Montenegrin Outpost at Pecorica, on the Road between Scutari and Antivari by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Trouble on the Turco-Servian Frontier, Albanians demanding Arms and Ammunition at a Servian House by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2nd September 1898 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Ciudad Rodrigo by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Cholera in Cairo, the People leaving Boulak by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, by Bret Harte by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Death and Funeral of the Prince Imperial, the Messengers of Death by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Coronations of English Sovereigns, William Rufus by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Nada the Lily, by H Rider Haggard by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Kale State, Upper Burmah, the Tsawbaw, with his Wives and Ministers by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
 - (MeisterDrucke-128225).jpg "Sir Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for England (gravure) by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Pastoral Plays at Coombe House, The Faithfull Shepherdesse by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Plassey by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Guerilla Warfare in South Africa by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Dangers of Mountaineering, an Avalanche by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Settling a Frontier Dispute by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Famine in Russia, Cossack Patrol near Kazan preventing the Peasants leaving their Village by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The New German Emperor, Frederick III, King of Prussia, as Crown Prince, in Military Command during the Franco-German War by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Burial of General Wauchope, the Fallen Chief of the Highland Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Torchlight Procession in Honour of the Russian Naval Officers in Paris by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Oudenarde by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Alexandria by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Landing of the British Army in Aboukir Bay by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Memorial Service to Gordon at Khartoum by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Household Cavalry at Kassassin, 28 August by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The War in the Soudan, a Bivouac in the Desert by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Punitive Expedition against the Darwesh Khel Waziris by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Muscovite Merrymaking during the Russo-Japanese War by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Origin of the Ancient Faggot-Cutting Ceremony at the Law Courts by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Eastern Crisis, the Storming of the Blockhouse of Malaxa by the Christian Insurgents by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Advance on Cabul, Afghan Mountaineers by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Trouble in Crete, Inhabitants of the Province of Selino taking to the Mountains by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "A narrow escape for Sir Henry Rawlinson at the Rock of Behistun by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The Indian Famine, relieving Starving Natives at a Residency by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "A Moonlight Night at Chelsea, a Reminiscence of Thomas Carlyle by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Wild Boar Hunting in Northern Albania by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Bashi-Bazouks on the March, a Halt for Prayer by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "The 42nd Highlanders guarding French prisoners by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Conjeveram by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
