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Victor Milton Corden (1860-1939) was a painter and the third generation of painters to have commissions from Queen Victoria. He was baptised at Datchet, Buckinghamshire on the 28 July 1960 and was the younger son of William Corden (1819-1900), portrait painter known as William Corden the Younger and grandson of William Corden (1795-1867), portrait painter and miniaturist known as William Corden the Elder.

Victor was born in the family home in Datchet and studied at the Life School Artist’s Society and at the Royal Drawing Society where he received an award for landscape painting. He painted mainly landscapes and military subjects and painted “The Return of the 2nd Life Guards to Windsor” for Queen Victoria in 1882 which is in the Royal Collection.

He married Charlotte Munday in Eton in 1889 and they moved to Newbury in 1890. They lived in London Road and then Donnington Square before settling at “Wayside” in Oxford Road for many years. In 1937 (two years before his death) he moved to a newly built flat in Wharf Street. For most of his life in Newbury his studio was a wooden building clad with corrugated iron on the edge of the Kennet and Avon Canal just to the east of Newbury Wharf. Victor and Charlotte were succeeded by two sons.