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Sawubona


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Richard Caton Woodville (Jr., is it not?) is certainly a favorite artist of mine and one of his contemporary prints holds a place of honor above my sofa. I was shocked to hear that his final resting place was unmarked until just recently and this Yank would have attended the event in a heartbeat had I known beforehand (and were "The Pond" a just bit narrower). My thanks to you Brian for the enlightenment and to all the others , particularly to Tony Woodville, who worked to make this belated recognition come about.
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Tony C W


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List of Major Works by Richard Caton Woodville 1856-1927

Is this the sort of data you seek?. A list of minor works is in preparation but it is a mammoth task.


No complete list of Richard�s works survives, and it would probably be impossible to construct one now. The following are those major works on military subjects which have been documented to date. There may be others which have disappeared, though some may still survive in private collections.



a) DATED WORKS
TITLE Year Si ze (cm) Medium Auctioned Present Location
Painted Ex.@ RA
1. Before Leuthen, 3rd December 1757 1879 1879 99 X 196 Oil on canvas Christie�s 18/10/74 , lot 16 Private collection
2. Candahar: the 92nd Highlanders and 2nd Goorkhas ?1880 1881 129 X 183 Oil on canvas Christie�s 29/07/77, lot 36 Private collection
Storming Gaudi Mullah Sahibdad
3.. Cruel to be Kind 1882 (a) 218 X 300 Oil on canvas National Army Museum
(Royal Artillery in Afghanistan)
4. Maiwand: Saving the Guns 1882 1882 133 X 199 Oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
5. � � (Smaller version) n/k 86 X 132 Oil on canvas Private collection
6. In the Nick of Time 1883 (b) 97 X 65 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 03/07/79, Lot 252 Private collection
(British Trooper foiling attempt to demolish a bridge, Egypt)
7. The Guards at Tel-el-Kebir 1884 1884 123 X 184 Oil on canvas Royal collection
8. The Late Commander Wyatt-Rawson RN, ?1884 1885 89 x 69 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 24/03/81, lot 171 Private collection
killed at Tel-el-Kebir 13th September 1882
9. In Vain! The Return of General Sir Herbert 1886 1886 n/k
Stewart From Metemneh, 1885
10. Too late! The Last March of Sir Herbert Stewart 1888 1888 123 X 185 Oil on canvas Royal collection
11. Saladin�s Cavalry Charging the Crusaders 1892 Okehampton Town Hall
12. The Charge of the Light Brigade 1894 1895 184 X 306 Oil on canvas Palacio Real de Madrid, Spain
13. The Storming of the Great Redoubt at the 1896 (c) 89 X 150 Oil on canvas Coldstream Guards
Battle of the Alma
14. The Relief of the Light Brigade 1897 National Army Museum
15. The Charge of the Light Brigade 1897 76 X 114 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 14/12/88 National Army Museum
16. The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the 1898 (d) 153 X 246 Oil on canvas Walker Gallery, Liverpool
Battle of Omdurman
TITLE Year Si ze (cm) Medium Auctioned Present Location
Painted Ex.@ RA

17. Life Guards Charging at the Battle of Waterloo 1899 88 X 59 Oil on canvas Christie�s 29/02/80, lot 203 Private collection
18. Gordon�s Memorial Service at his Ruined Palace 1899 1899 133 X 199 Oil on canvas Royal Collection
in Khartoum, the day after the Battle of Omdurman
19. Conquered but not Subdued 1899 90 X 58 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 01/04/80, lot 218 Private collection
(Highlanders captured by the French) Sotheby�s New York 22/02/89, lot 116
20. The Dawn of Majuba Day, 1900 1900 (e) 180 X 142 Oil on canvas Royal Canadian Military Institute,
(Canadian soldiers celebrating the Boer surrender at Paardeberg.) Toronto
21. French Hussars Fording a River 1901 61 X 47 Oil on canvas Private collection (USA)
22. Lindlay: Whitsunday 1900 1901 1901 Oil on canvas 5th Bn Royal Green Jackets
(Church Service on the Veldt)
23. All that was Left of them 1902 66 X 99 Oil on canvas 17th/21st Lancers Museum, Belvoir Castle
(17th Lancers near Tarkestadt, 1902)
24. Scotland Yet! On to Victory 1904 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
(Stirrup charge of the Royal Scots Greys and the Gordon Highlanders at Waterloo)
25. At the Trumpet�s Call (Marston Moor) 1904 38 X 51 Oil on canvas Private collection
26. General Wolfe Climbing the Heights of Abraham 1906
27. The Returning Orderly 1908 41 X 39 Oil on board Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead
28. Napoleon Before Wagram 1909 36 X 25 Oil on canvas Christie�s 24/01/75, lot 87 Private collection
29. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Retreat from Moscow) 1911 1911 122 X 183 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 09/032/76, lot 88 Private collection
30. Napoleon Crossing the Bridge to Lobau Island 1912 (d) 36 X 25 Oil on panel Tate
31. Poniatowski�s Last Charge at Leipzig 1912 35 X 25 Oil on panel Tate Tate
32. Napoleon Conferring the Legion d�Honneur on 1912 (d) 122 X 91 Oil on canvas Christie�s 25/11/88, lot 153b Private collection (USA)
a Russian General Tate
33. Marshall Ney at Eylau 1913 36 X 25 Oil on panel
34. The First VC of the European War 1914 117 X 178 Oil on canvas National Army Museum
(Captain Grenfell of the 9th Lancers charging at Audregnies)
35. Marshall Ney at Waterloo 1914 36 X 25 Oil on panel Private collection
36. The Last Call (Trumpeter Falling at the Charge of 1915 117 X 86 Oil on canvas The Queen�s Royal Hussars
The Light Brigade)
37. The Battle of the Somme 1917 119 X 180 Oil on canvas Guards Museum 2nd Bn Manchester 37. 38. The 2nd Bn Manchester Regiment Taking 1918 185 X 246 The King�s Regiment
Six German guns at Dawn near St Quentin, April 1917
39. �We saw you going, but we knew you would 1919 1919 101 X 153 Oil on canvas The Queen�s Royal Lancers
be back� (Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons 11th November 1918)
TITLE Year Si ze (cm) Medium Auctioned Present Location
Painted Ex.@ RA

40. The Charge of the 9TH Lancers at Moncel, 1921 9th/12th Royal Lancers
7th September 1914
41. Halloween 1914 ( Stand of the London Scottish 1927 1927 Oil on canvas London Scottish Regimental
on Messines Ridge) Assocation, London


b) WORKS FOR WHICH NO DATE CAN BE FOUND

42. Waterloo- The Old Guard n/k Oil on canvas Palacio Real de Madrid
43. �Draw Sabres� (Napoleon�s Guards at the Battle n/k 38 X 27 Oil on panel West Point Museum, New York
of Wagram)
44. A Narrow Shave! n/k 31 X 20 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 01/04/80, lot 218 Private collection
(Dragoon in Napoleon�s Army 1810) Sotheby�s New York 22/02/89, lot 116
45. The Piper of Loos n/k Oil on canvas King�s Own Scottish Borderers
Regimental Association
46. The Alarm at Break of Day n/k 31 X 20 Oil on canvas Sotheby�s 01/04/80, lot 218 Private collection
Sotheby�s New York 22/02/89
47. 1st King�s Dragoons at Waterloo n/k 21 X 20 Oil on canvas Private collection
48. Soldiers Watching Burning Compound n/k Oil on canvas Private collection
During the Zulu War
49. The Guards at the Battle of Biddulphsberg n/k 84 X 53 Oil on canvas Kenneth Griffith Collection


Notes

(a) Exhibited at The Graphic exhibition of animal paintings, 1894
(b) Exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours 1883
(c) Exhibited at Graves� War Pictures, Pall Mall, May 1897
(d) Exhibited at the Guildhall, 1915
(e) Exhibited at Graves�. Birmingham, 1900




c) WORKS REPRODUCED IN �RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS� BUT FOR WHICH NO OTHER RECORD CAN BE FOUND

50. Waterloo 1815
51. HM King Edward VII
52. After the Storming of Badajoz, 1812
53. L�en Demain de Jena et Auerstadt
54. Incident in the French Camp
55. HM King George V
56. General Bonaparte at St Jean d�Acre



d) OTHER WORKS
These are available as prints from Cranston�s, who claim to have the original colour lithographs.
They must however have existed as paintings before they were engraved.

57. All that was left of them (Balaklava)
58. The Last Shot at Colenso �
59. All that was left of them (17th Lancers at Modderfontein) �
60. Jameson�s last stand � Doornkop 2nd January 1896
61. My Brave Irish - the last charge at Pieter�s Hill by the 2nd Irish Fusiliers and the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers
62. Sebastopol
63. Burning the Eagles on the Retreat from Moscow
64. The Gordon Highlanders storming the Dargai Heights (Piper Findlater winning the VC)
65. Ramsay�s Battery of Horse Artillery at the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro
66. The Defiant Highlander (A Gordon Highlander captured by Grenadiers a Cheval)
67. Up Guards and at Them! (Wellington orders the Grenadier Guards forward at Waterloo)
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6 I.L.N Illustrations of the AZW by Richard Caton Woodville
SIR BCP


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Here are 6 of the above 7 ILN prints by RCW; As mentioned in the post above by Tony.
The one missing is "At General Newdigates HQ"
Enjoy

Brian

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