Richard Caton Woodville

Richard Caton Woodville was an English artist and illustrator, best known as being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A fine example of Richard Caton Woodville‘s battle art, showing the 92nd Highlanders and 2nd Gurkhas at Kandahar

Woodville was the son of an artist, also called Richard Caton Woodville, and attended Dusseldorf School of Painting under Wilhelm Camphausen and Eduard von Gebhardt before studying in Russia and Paris, the latter under Jean-Leon Gerome.

Woodville spent most of his career working for the Illustrated London News, but also published work in Cornhill Magazine, Strand Magazine and The Tatler. He was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

He had first hand knowledge of battles, reporting on the Russo-Turkish War and the Anglo-Egyptian War. His work included many paintings of the Boer Wars and the First World War. He committed suicide at his studio in St John’s Wood on 17 August 1927.

Many more pictures by Richard Caton Woodville can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.