Richard Caton Woodville Junior

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Richard Caton Woodville, Jr.

Richard Caton Woodville junior (born January 7, 1856 in London ; † August 17, 1927 there ) was a painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting , who specialized primarily in military and historical subjects.

Life

Richard Caton Woodville was born in Stanhope Gardens, Gloucester Road, after the death of his father Richard Caton Woodville senior († August 1855 in London) in London. The mother Antoinette , daughter of the Düsseldorf architect and builder Anton Schnitzler , took him and his sister Alice Elizabeth Mary Woodville (* 1853) first to St. Petersburg and in 1859 to Düsseldorf to the house at Alleestraße 20. Like his father and mother, Woodville studied painting with Eduard Gebhardt and Wilhelm Camphausen at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1875, convicted of trespassing in Düsseldorf, he was wanted and was evidently on the run until 1881. In Else Sohn-Rethel's memoirs , he and his friend and fellow student Reichenheim from Berlin followed Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt's daughter in Ida Keller's daughter boarding school on Goltsteinstrasse . Woodville went to Paris , continued his studies with Jean-Léon Gérôme , and then to London.

In October 1877, Woodville married his first wife, Annie Elizabeth, née Hill, 22, at Christ Church with St Laurence, Brondesbury. Shortly afterwards he toured Albania and Montenegro during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 , and was also there during the armed conflict in Egypt in 1882 . From 1879 he took part in exhibitions; from the beginning he preferred military motives. In addition to his large-format pictures, which he painted with oil and watercolors, he also created numerous print templates for the Illustrated London News . The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of his most famous pictures .

By 1881, Richard Woodville and his family lived at 22 Park Village, St Pancras . Two sons were born: Anthony (* 1878) and William Caton Woodville (1884–1962), who also became a painter.

In 1914 he published his memoirs under the title Random Collections . Woodville's works are e.g. B. in London in the National Army Museum , Royal Academy of Arts and the Tate Gallery , as well as in Liverpool in the Walker Art Gallery and in the Royal Collection .

Works

Napoleon, Croix d'Honneur, painting from 1912

Military / war images

  • Before Leuthen, Dec 3rd, 1757 (1879)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade (Royal Collection, Madrid)
  • Cruel To Be Kind , (1882, National Army Museum )
  • The Moonlight Charge at Kassassin (1883)
  • Saving the Guns (1883, Walker Art Galler)
  • The Guards at Tel-e-Kebir (1885, Royal Collection)
  • The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman (Walker Art Gallery)
  • The Relief of the Light Brigade , (1897, National Army Museum)
  • A gentleman in khaki , (1899)
  • General Wolfe Climbing the Heights of Abraham on the Morning of the Battle of Quebec , (1906, Tate Gallery)
  • Napoleon Crossing the Bridge to Lobau Island , (1912, Tate Gallery)
  • Poniatowski's Last Charge at Leipzig , (1912, Tate Gallery)
  • Marshal Ney at Eylau , (1913, Tate Gallery)
  • The First VC of the European War , (1914, National Army Museum)
  • Halloween, 1914: Stand of the London Scottish on Messines Ridge (1914, London Scottish Museum Trust)
  • The 2nd Batt. Manchester Regiment taking six guns at dawn near St. Quentin
  • Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons

Other pictures

  • Ascending The Great Pyramid
  • Tyrol - Turning The Great Corner
  • Burma - Minister of State With Attendants
  • Bull fighting
  • Trades - Estate Agent 'Sold'
  • Fishing For Bass On The South Coast of England
  • London - Hyde Park In The Row
  • Lost Their Way

literature

  • Roger T. Stearn: Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), military artist. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of September 23, 2004, accessed August 25, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Richard Caton Woodville, Jr.  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schnitzler A. u. R., E. (= Owner), Woodville, wife, Alleestraße 20. In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf , 1859, p. 2
  2. ↑ The painter Richard Woodville, 18 years old, born in London, lives in Düsseldorf, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for trespassing by the local royal disciplinary police court on April 27th and has enforced this sentence Fleeing withdrawn, Düsseldorf, December 1, 1875. In: Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region . Public Scoreboard. No. 101. Volume 1875.
  3. ^ Against the painter Richard Woodville, 24 years old, who is fleeting ..., Düsseldorf, May 12, 1881. In: Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District . Public Scoreboard. No. 68th year 1881
  4. ↑ Hans Pleschinski: “I was happy whether it rained or not.” Memoirs of Else Sohn-Rethel . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69165-2
personal data
SURNAME Woodville, Richard Caton Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1927
Place of death London