The life of Richard Caton Woodville junior, born in 1856, had been quite exciting from an early age. His father had died before he was even born and so the most important people in his young life were his sister and his mother. She was the daughter of a Düsseldorf architect and moved with her two children from London to St. Petersburg. From there the path of the small family continued to Düsseldorf. There Richard Caton Woodville junior studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, following in the footsteps of his father and mother.
His teachers included Wilhelm Camphausen and Eduard Gebhardt. Between 1875 and 1881 Richard Caton Woodville had to go into hiding. The reason was an arrest warrant against him for trespassing. The painter went to Paris and continued his studies here. His most important reference person became the history painter Jean Leon Gerome. Later the artist went back to London and made a name for himself primarily as a painter of military and war paintings. His experiences, which he had gained on a trip through Albania and Montenegro in 1877, were particularly helpful in this respect. At that time the Russian-Turkish War was raging there.
In 1882 he also became 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 Afghan War, Conflict of 1st Punjaub Cavalry and 15th Hussars with Afghan Cavalry by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Battle of the Somme by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Insurrection in Morocco, the Sultan")
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.jpg "The Austrian Campaign in Bosnia, General Szapary")
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.jpg "Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava, 25 October 1854 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Impending Afghan War, Meeting of Afreedis in the Khyber Pass by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Richard I Delivering the Crown to the Archbishop Before the Act of Crowning by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "A Seasonable Compliment, Crowning the Hero by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Opening of the Imperial Institute, the Queen Declaring the Building Open by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Battle of Quebec, 1759, Illustration from")
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.jpg "The Mad Mullah")
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.jpg "The Coming of Age of Prince Albert Victor Edward of Wales, the Ball at Sandringham by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Maruja by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Zulu War, Ready! at General Newdigate")
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.jpg "The Artist")
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.jpg "Eyre")
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.jpg "Sketches in Albania, a Bear-Fancier in the Bazaar, Scutari by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-77590).jpg "Battle of Balaclava, 25th October 1854, Relief of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Russian War Preparations, Cossack Artillery on the March by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Defender of Mafeking, Colonel Baden-Powell, in the Uniform of the Special Corps He Has Raised in British Bechuanaland by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War, a Turkish Outpost by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Majuba Day, Cronje surrenders to Lord Roberts on the Anniversary of Majuba, at the Camp of Paardeberg, Modder River by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Indian Frontier Rising, Gurkhas Descending a Pass in the Upper Mohmand Country under Fire by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The murder of the Duke of Burgundy AD1419 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The British Mission to Morocco, the Caves of Hercules, Near Tangier by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Guerilla Warfare in South Africa by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War in the Sudan, An Affair with Outposts by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Prospecting for Gold in British Columbia, a Portage by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The election of the girl Duchess, 1920")
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.jpg "The British Mission to Morocco by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Battle of Blenheim: Storming the village, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Transvaal Crisis, Colonel Plumer")
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.jpg "The Zulu War, Mr Archibald Forbes")
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.jpg "An Indian Army Camp of Exercise in the Madras Presidency, the Elephant Battery by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Occupation of Cyprus, Prisoners from the Gaol at Nicosia Escorted to Kyrenia by British and Turkish Troops by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Luther Made Prisoner by the Saxon Knights in the Forest of Thuringia, to be Carried in Disguise to the Wartburg for His Safety by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Edward III greeting the Prince of Wales after the Battle of Crecy, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Assault of Arms at the Agricultural Hall, cleaving the Turk")
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.jpg "The Squire")
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.jpg "The War in the Soudan, a Dervish Preaching the Holy War to Arab Chiefs by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Guerilla Warfare in South Africa by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Advance towards Dongola, the Battle of Ferket by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Great Snowstorm in Northumberland, the Snow-Plough on the Roads near Alnwick by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Relief of Suakin, Charge of the 20th Hussars on the Enemy")
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.jpg "Types of the Greek Army by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War in Tunis, Attack of Arab Cavalry on a French Square by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Burial of Sir John Moore in the Citadel of Corunna by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Return of Prince Alexander to Bulgaria, the Prince on the Drill-Ground at Rustchuk by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Benin Expedition, a Trader returning to the Coast by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2nd September 1898 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Prince of Prussia During the Berlin Insurrection of 1848 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War in the Transvaal by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Imperial Yeoman")
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.jpg "Armies of the Continent, Prussian Uhlans of the Guard on Reconnaissance Duty by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Plassey by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Deep-Sea Fishing by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "A Recognition by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Late German Emperor, William I, and the Old Prussian Guard by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Courage of Pauline Camacho by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Punishment of a Fraudulent Baker, 1920")
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.jpg "Nada the Lily, by H Rider Haggard by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Advance of Russian Civilisation, a Sotnia of Cossacks at a Village in Chinese Tartary by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Hotspur")
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.jpg "New Year")
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.jpg "Sport in the Selkirks by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War in the East, the First Bulgarian Outpost Picket on the Road to Nish by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Eyre")
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.jpg "The Nile Expedition, the Advance on Khartoum, capturing the Enemy")
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.jpg "Queen Ethelfled Watching the Storming of Brecon by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Rebellion in Morocco, Captive Followers of the Pretender Awaiting Execution by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "They Were Married, by Walter Besant and James Rice by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Last Stand, representing the Fate of Major Allan Wilson and his Comrades in the Matabili War by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The War Between Servia and Bulgaria, the Fight at Pirot by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Shah of Persia")
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.jpg "The Queen")
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.jpg "Battles of the British Army, Cressy, Edward III Greeting the Prince of Wales After the Battle by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Albanian Question, the Montenegrin Minister of War at Podgoritza by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Battle of Alma by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Imperial Coronation at Moscow, Proclamation by the Heralds and Secretaries of the Senate by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Congress at Berlin, Staircase of the Radziwill Palace, Arrival of Prince Gortschakoff by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Death of Queen Victoria, the German Emperor")
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.jpg "The British Mission to Morocco by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Eyre")
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.jpg "Bishop Odo Surrenders Rochester Castle, AD 1088 by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Cleopatra, by H Rider Haggard by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Under the Red Robe, by Stanley J Weyman by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Eagle Joe by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Prince and Princess of Wales in Denmark, Reception of the Prince by the Emperor of Russia at Fredensborg by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Squire")
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 Grant wounded in the Manipur Fighting carried back to Tummu - (MeisterDrucke-195142).jpg "Lieutenant (now Major) Grant, Wounded in the Manipur Fighting, Carried Back to Tummu by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Battle of Malplaquet, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Recent Crisis in Rio de Janeiro, Mounted Police Clearing the Rua do Ouvidor by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Prince Albert Victor in India, hunting Black Buck with Cheetah at Hyderabad by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Captain Dummy, Sergeant Scarecrow, and Private Bogus, a Little Joke of the Imperial Light Horse by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "Sport in the Rockies by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The British Mission to Morocco by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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.jpg "The Royal Colonial Tour, the Duke of Cornwall at Cape Town by Richard Caton Woodville junior")
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