Military art prints of
the Crimean, Afghan, Sudan and First World Wars by Richard Caton
Woodville. Art prints published by Cranston Fine Arts.
Woodville was the most prolific 'battle' artist of the nineteenth and early
twentieth century in Britain, producing countless oil paintings and drawings,
many for the Illustrated London News. As was the case with several history
painters of the Victorian period, he studied at Dusseldorf sometime with Wilhelm
Camphausen, the great German military painter, and later in Paris. He
experienced was first-hand in Albania and Montenegro towards the end of the
Russo-Turkish War in 1877, and later in Egypt during the war of 1882. During the
latter conflict, he made numerous sketches and obtained photographs of the
trenches at Tel-e-Kebir for his friend, the French military artist, Alphonse de
Neuville (q.v.) who had been commissioned to paint a scene of the battle. The
fruits of both their labours were shown at the Fine Art Society in 1883,
Woodville, exhibiting The Moonlight Charge at Kassassin. In 1884, Woodville
exhibited by Royal Command, another picture relating to the Egyptian War. The
Guards at Tel-e-Kebir (Royal Collection).
His first Royal Academy picture exhibited in 1879, was entitled Before Leuthen,
Dec. 3rd, 1757. Thereafter, he was a frequent exhibitor at Burlington House,
showing no less than 21 battle pictures, many dealing with contemporary events
such as the Second Afghan War, Candahar (Private collection) and Maiwand; saving
the Guns (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), the Zulu War - Prince Louis Napoleon
in Zululand, and the Boer War - Lindley; Whitsunday 1900 (Oxfordshire Light
Infantry Association), and Dawn of Majuba (Canadian Military Institute).
He painted many historical recreations both in oil and water-colour including a
series on famous British battles for the Illustrated London News. He depicted
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Royal Collection, Madrid) and The Charge of the
21st Lancers at Omdurman (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), Blenheim, Badajos and
several Waterloo pictures. During the Great War, he turned his talents to
depicting the current events, three of which were exhibited at the Royal
Academy. The 2nd Batt. Manchester Regiment taking six guns at dawn near St.
Quentin (The Ring's Regiment), Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons (16th/5th
Royal Lancers), and Halloween, 1914: Stand of the London Scottish on Messines
Ridge (London Scottish Museum Trust) exhibited in the year of his death.
During his life, he was the most popular artist of the genre and he was the
subject of several articles in magazines and journals. He himself wrote some
memoirs in 1914 entitled Random Recollections. He was deeply interested in the
army and joined the Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1879, staying with them
until 1914 when he joined the National Reserve as a Captain.
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 | Last Stand at Gundamuck by William Barnes Wollen. | £51.00 |  | Outpost of the New Model Army on the Eve of the Battle of Naseby by Ernest Crofts. | £10.92 |  | Prince Alberts Somerset Light Infantry by Richard Caton Woodville | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | The Manchester Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | On Sentry by William Barnes Wollen. | £14.00 |  | The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £37.80 |  | The Royal Engineers, Railway Battalion by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | The Devonshire Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | The Gordon Highlanders by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | Up Guards and at Them by Richard Caton Woodville. | 4 editions available from £14.00 |  | His eyes turned up to heaven, his shoulders in a pool of blood, possibly by Richard Caton Woodville | £15.00 |  | The First VC of the European War by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £51.00 |  | The Cameronians by Richard Caton Woodville | 3 editions available from £14.00 |  | My Brave Irish by Richard Caton Woodville | 4 editions available from £37.00 |  | The Salute by William Barnes Wollen. | £14.00 |  | The Berkshire Yeomanry by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Relief of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville. | 5 editions available from £48.00 |  | The Defiant Highlander by Richard Caton Woodville. | 5 editions available from £43.00 |  | The Last Shot at Colenso by Richard Caton Woodville | 3 editions available from £37.00 |  | Royal Army Medical Corps by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | Royal Field Artillery by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | The Royal Scots by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Royal Engineer by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £10.92 |  | Honourable Artillery Company by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman by Richard Caton Woodville. | 3 editions available from £43.00 |  | Storming of Dargai Heights by the 1st Gordon Highlanders. The Wounded Pipers Gallantry by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £16.00 |  | The Royal Artillery by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | Lord Roberts Entry into Pretoria by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £18.00 |  | Royal Gloucestershire Hussars by Richard Caton Woodville | 2 editions available from £7.80 |  | Kings Liverpool Regiment, 10th Scottish Battalion by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | All That Was Left of Them by Richard Caton Woodville (Y) | 2 editions available from £30.00 |  | East Yorkshire Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | We tried hard to save the rest of the guns, possibly by Richard Caton Woodville | £15.00 |  | The London Regiment, City of London Battalions by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Saving the Guns at the Battle of Maiwand by Richard Caton Woodville. | 4 editions available from £51.00 |  | Major-General Baden Powell possibly by Richard Caton Woodville | £15.00 |  | Scotland yet onto Victory by Richard Caton Woodville. | 4 editions available from £37.00 |  | The Black Watch by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | Napoleon Awarding the Legion of Honour by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | The Ensign by William Barnes Wollen. | £14.00 |  | 92nd Highlanders at the Battle of Kandahar by Richard Caton Woodville. | 5 editions available from £51.00 |  | Here They Come by William Barnes Wollen. | £14.00 |  | The London Regiment, City of London Battalions by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Ramsays Battery of Horse Artillery at the Battle of Fuentos Onoro, May 5th 1811 by Richard Caton Woodville. | 3 editions available from £25.50 |  | Brigadier General and Staff by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Charge of the Life Guards by Richard Caton Woodville | 4 editions available from £43.00 |  | The London Regiment, City of London Battalions by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | The Highland Light Infantry by Richard Caton Woodville. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | Jamiesons Last Stand, Battle of Doornkop 2nd January 1896 by Richard Caton Woodville | 3 editions available from £37.00 |  | Charge of the 9th Lancers by Richard Caton Woodville, | 2 editions available from £51.00 |  | Capture of a German Battery by Richard Caton Woodville. | £42.00 |  | Army Service Corps by Richard Caton Woodville. | 3 editions available from £14.00 |  | Bisley by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) by Richard Simkin. | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville | 2 editions available from £14.00 |  | Escort to the Colour by William Barnes Wollen. | £14.00 |  | Burning the Eagles on the Retreat From Moscow by Richard Caton Woodville. | 4 editions available from £43.00 |  | Saving the Guns at the Battle of Maiwand by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £25.00 |  | The Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville. | 6 editions available from £51.00 |  | Royal Garrison Artillery by Richard Caton Woodville. (P) | £75.00 |  | All that was Left of Them by Richard Caton Woodville. | 5 editions available from £48.00 |  | Sebastopol by Richard Caton Woodville. | 3 editions available from £14.00 | | XXZ12 Last Stand at Gundamuck by William Barnes Wollen. | £35.00 |  | The Royal Warwickshire Regiment by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |  | 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) by Richard Caton Woodville (P) | £75.00 |
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All that was Left of Them by Richard Caton Woodville.
The Light Brigade had 195 mounted survivors, leaving 113 dead and
134 wounded with 231 unhorsed men. After the charge of the Light Brigade, the Roll is shown being carried out.
(The print is reproduced from the original Coloured Lithograph (circa 1890) as
the original could not be located).
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Caton Woodville.
The all time classic image of the disastrous Charge of the Light
Brigade which included the 17th lancers, who lead the charge. Lord Cardigan is shown on the left, dressed in his 11th Hussars
uniform.
Relief of the Light Brigade by Caton
Woodville. Depicting the Light Brigade at the moment of reaching the Russian guns.
Shown are the 10th Hussars and the 17th Lancers.
Saving the Guns at the Battle of Maiwand by Richard Caton
Woodville. In July 1879 during the Afghan Campaign. Ayub Khan and an army of over
35,000 warriors were marching onto Kandahar. The British force under the
command of General Burrows decided to fight. With a force, no more than
3,300 strong, took up position in a tiny hamlet of Mahmudabad, within 2
hours many of the British had been slaughtered, but with nightfall the
remnants of the brigade retreated. The picture shows C battery of the
Royal Horse Artillery withdrawing with the enemy in hot pursuit.
92nd Highlanders at the Battle of Kandahar by
Caton Woodville. The painting depicts the 92nd Highlanders (Gordon Highlanders) routing
Ayub Khan tribesmen, on 31st August 1880, who had earlier on 26th July
beaten the British at the battle of Maiwand and was now besieging the
remainder of Primrose's division in the citadel of Kandahar. Roberts with
a force of 10,000 men (Gordon Highlanders, 60th Rifles, 72nd Highlanders,
Sixth Gurka and Punjabi Infantry) marched out of Kabul to relieve Kandahar
which was 300 miles away. The epic Battle of Kandahar made Roberts one of
the great Victorian military heroes.
Storming of Dargai Heights by the 1st
Gordon Highlanders. The Wounded Pipers Gallantry by Caton Woodville.
Christmas, which is essentially the spirit of home, turns our thoughts
more sympathetically then at any other season of the year to our kinsmen
across the seas, especially to our soldiers in the lonely outposts of the
Empire. This picture recalls a famous incident in the story of our Indian
Frontier which was thrilling the Motherland about this time twelve years
ago. On August 23rd, 1897, the warlike tribe of the Afridis attacked Ali
Musjid and Fort Maude. In October a British force was despatched to punish
them by invading Tirah, their summer home, and on the 20th of the month
occurred the fight on the Dargai Heights, where the enemy had taken up a
strong position. The Gurkhas were first sent up, but were met with a
withering fire. Then the Derby's and the Dorsets tried to rush the
entrenchments; but at last the (1st) Gordon Highlanders were told off for
the perilous task. Headed by their pipers, and led by Lieut.-Colonel
Mathias, they dashed through a murderous fire, and in forty minutes won
the height, leaving three officers and thirty men killed and wounded on
the way. The individual acts of courage were equally splendid, and the
conduct of the pipers in particular roused great enthusiasm. Their
Lance-Corporal was shot through the chest, but Piper Findlater, after
being shot through both feet and unable to stand, sat up under a heavy
fire and continued playing the "Cock o' the North" to encourage
his comrades. His gallantry raised an enormous wave of public enthusiasm.
He received the V.C. and retired on a pension to his native Aberdeenshire.
The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman by Richard Caton
Woodville. Depicting the charge of the Lancers against what they first thought was a
small group of Dervishes, but was in fact thousands hidden in a depression in
the desert. The Lancers had to ride straight through. For this bravery three
Victoria crosses were won. The 21st lancers lost 5 officers and 65 men with 120
horses lost. Winston Churchill was one of the Officers who survived the
charge.
Charge of the 9th Lancers by Richard Caton Woodville.
Depicts the charge of a squadron of the 9th Lancers against the Prussian
Dragoons of the Guard at Moncel on the 7th September 1914. This was Cavalry
action in the First World War when cavalry charged with both sides at
full gallop. The 9th Lancers casualties were 3 killed and 7 wounded compared
to heavy losses suffered by the Prussian Dragoons.
The First VC of the European War by Richard Caton
Woodville. Captain Francis
Grenfell, 9th Lancers, the first VC of World War I to
be gazetted, winning the VC at Audregnies, Belgium, 24th August 1914.
Capture of a German Battery by Richard Caton Woodville.
German 77mm battery captured by C Company, 2nd Battalion the Manchester
Regiment, 2nd April 1917 at Francilly Selency. The attacks on Francilly-Selency would prove costly
and difficult to the attacking British forces. The Germans had dug in
well. But the Manchester regiment's 2nd battalion, attacking
from Roupy just beyond Savy village. towards the large hill which would
later be called Manchester Hill. captured the German 77nn Gun
battery. The Manchester regiment would again be on the attack on
the 14th April at Fayet. and would go on to the trenches
of the Hindenburg line at Gricourt road, san Quentin
The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by
Richard Caton Woodville. The 5th Lancers (attached to the Canadian Corps) were the first British troops to re-enter
Mons, just
as they had been the last to leave Mons in August 1914. Very few of the
troopers who left Mons in 1914 were there to re-enter in 1918.
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