DEATH OF AN ARTIST.
FOUND SHOT IN STUDIO. PAINTER OF WAR PICTURES Sun LONDON, Aug. 17. The death has occurred under rtagic circumstances of a well-known British artist, Mr. Richard Caton Woodville. Deceased was found shot in his studio in Abbey Road and died on the way to a hospital. Mr. Woodville had a fine war picture in the last Royal Academy exhibition.
Mr. Richard Caton Wocdville was chiefly known for his spirited paintings of battle scenes, and for his illustrations of wartime incidents in illustrated papers. Ho had had actual experience of warfare, as he had been in Egypt in the campaign of 1882, and had seen fighting in Turkey and the Balkans. He painted various pictures for Queen V ictoria which are at Windsor, and for many years he exhibited at the Royal Academy where his first picture was hung in 1879. He was born in London in 1856.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 11
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