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Woodville, Richard Caton (1825–c. 1855)  The Charge of the Light Brigade, an 1895 engraving by US artist Richard Caton Woodville (1825–1855). This event in the Crimean War, in which the English brigade charged the Russian army against hopeless odds and was slaughtered, was glorified by Alfred Tennyson (then English poet laureate) in his poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854). | US painter. He is known for genre works, such as Politics in an Oyster House (1848). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied medicine (c. 1842), painted in Düsseldorf, Germany (1845–51), and became an expatriate in Paris, France, and London, England. |
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