Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Product:Canvas Half-length portrait in Royal Naval

Half-length portrait in Royal Naval uniform against a background of sky and clouds

'English barber

Speaker of the House of Commons

'They met with an Old Man'

Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Product:Canvas Half-length portrait in Royal NavalCaptain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards, 1877. A traveller and adventurer, Burnaby became famous when he published A Ride to Khiva, an account of his travels in central Asia undertaken in 1875 1876. He was killed in action at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan in 1885. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law,