Richard Caton Woodville

Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons, 11 November 1918, 1919.

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on canvas mounted on panel

National Army Museum, United Kingdom

The Guards at Tel-el-Kebir, 13 September 1882, 1884.

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on canvas

Royal Collection, United Kingdom

Poniatowski's Last Charge at Leipzig, 1912.

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on wood

Tate, United Kingdom

Napoleon Crossing the Bridge to Lobau Island, 1912.

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on wood

Tate, United Kingdom

The Memorial Service for General Gordon, 4 September 1898, 1899.

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on canvas

Royal Collection, United Kingdom

The Marriage of Princess Beatrice, 23 July 1885, 1886.

The Marriage of Princess Beatrice, 23rd July 1885 (museum title)

Richard Caton Woodville (British), oil on canvas

Royal Collection, United Kingdom

Works by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), in the public domain, each linked to its record in the museum that holds it. The son of the American painter of the same name, who died the year he was born, Woodville trained in Düsseldorf and then in Paris, before becoming the most popular battle painter of Victorian England and one of the leading artists of the Illustrated London News, for which he covered the Russo-Turkish War and the Egyptian campaign. Here are his battles, from Tel-el-Kebir to the Napoleonic Wars, two scenes commissioned by Queen Victoria, and the return of the British lancers to Mons on 11 November 1918. Many of his most famous paintings, such as Maiwand and the charge of the lancers at Omdurman, are not on this page for now: their museums do not publish them online, or only in photographs that are too small. Only works that the museums give to Woodville without reservation, and of which a freely reusable photograph of at least 900 pixels exists, are included. The titles are those of the museums, with their translation.