ARTIST’S DEATH
MR RICHARD WOODVfLLE FOUND SHOT IN STUDIO. Press Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. August 17. (Received August 18, at 11.40 a.m.) Mr Richard Caton Woodvillo, the well-known artist, was ion ml shot in lys Abbey road studio, and died on tin way to the hospital. Ho was seventy-one years of age, and had a lino war picture in tho last Academy. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. [Richard Caton Woodvillo was born in London, tho son of a Baltimore artist, lie was educated in Germany, and went through the Egyptian war of 1682, tho Turkish war of 1878, as well as minor warlike operations in Albania and tho East generatly. Uo exhibited ids first picture at the Royal Academy in 1879, a.ud since then has exhibited annually. He painted several largo pictures in Windsor Castle lor tho Queen.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 9
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