Richard caton woodville biography definition
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Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
English painter (1856–1927)
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.RI ROI (7 January 1856 – 17 August 1927) was an English artist and illustrator, who is best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Biography
[edit]The son of Richard Caton Woodville Sr., an American who was also a talented artist, Woodville studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the Prussian military painter Wilhelm Camphausen, and then Eduard von Gebhardt, both artists of the Düsseldorf School of painting, before briefly studying in Russia and then Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. Woodville spent most of his career working for the Illustrated London News, where he quickly developed a reputation as a talented reporter and writer, but was also published in Cornhill Magazine, Strand Magazine, and The Tatler.
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Woodville History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Woodville family
The surname Woodville was first found in Northamptonshire at Woodwell, a hamlet about a mile west of the village of Woodford. Some of the first records of the name include: Robert de Wudewelle who was listed in Bedfordshire c. 1240 and Geoffrey dem Wodewell who was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in 1327.
The place name literally means "dweller by the stream or spring in the wood," from the Old English words wuda, wiella. 1
The parish of Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire was an important family seat of the family. The Manor was the birthplace of Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492) who married Edward IV in 1464. The Manor later passed to the Grey Marquesses of Dorset, descendants of queen consort Elizabeth Woodville bygd her first marriage to Sir John Grey.
Early History of the Woodville family
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Richard Caton Woodville
American painter
This article is about Richard Caton Woodville Sr. For his son, see Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30.[1] He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville Jr., also a noted artist.[1] In his short career he produced fewer than 20 paintings; but they were well known in their time through exhibition and prints and have remained prominent in the canon of American painters.
Early life and training
[edit]Woodville was the eldest son born to a prominent Baltimore family.[1] He displayed early promise in caricatures of his teachers. He attended the University of Maryland Medical School for one year. Woodville would likely have been exposed to the ex