Battle of Balaclava Drummer Boy
Richard Buckner (1812 - London 1883)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1854
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
703 x 497 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515489
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Battle of Balaclava Drummer Boy by Richard Buckner (Chichester 1812 – London 1883), signed: R. Buckner f, bottom right, circa 1854. A full-length portrait in uniform playing drum, white trousers, red jacket with gold brocade. Standing against unfurled background, with canon sketched in at right. . Label on frame 'The Balaclave Drummer Boy, R. Buckner. Exhibited St James's Palace, Grenadier Guards Tercentenary Exhibition, June 1956, No.168. Painted circa 1854'. Barber, a drummer boy. The boy, whose name is given as Barber in the 1964 sale catalogue, was killed in the Crimean War; the painting is said to have been painted shortly afterwards. Unfinished.
Provenance
Major J. Napier Wilson sale, Christies, Nov 1964, lot 73; with Gordon and Fox (Gooden and Fox?). Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Richard Buckner (1812 - London 1883), artist
References
Apollo Magazine, vol. CV, No.180, February, 1977,, Violet Powell, ‘A Gentleman Painter for Hire’, pp.127-8, and fig. 2. (‘Drummer Barber: The Balaclava Drum Boy, c. 1854’.)