Boxing match: Ben Caunt and John Perry (Perry the Black), Westminster Baths
1846
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1846
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Boxing match: Ben Caunt and John Perry (Perry the Black), Westminster Baths is a 1846 watercolor by John Burley Waring, a british_romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1846, artist Waring painted a boxing match at London’s Westminster Baths. The watercolor shows John Perry, a Black boxer, facing Ben Caunt. Perry had boxed professionally just once that year. Perry fought with precision—dancing, jabbing, and punching cleanly. Soon after, he was sent to Australia for forgery. Yet in 1849, he won the Australian heavyweight title there. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
