buckner's commission book has entries from 1840-1 to 1877. it lists 989 commissions, a few of which were not executed. it also includes a financial summary from 1842-3 to 1874-5 with fees totalling £67249. the financial summary indicates that he was in rome full-time in 1842-3 and 1843-4 and then partly in rome and partly in london each year from 1844-5 until 1847-8 and again partly in rome and london 1849-50, 1850-1, 1853-4, 1854-5 and 1856-7 and then partly in dieppe 1861-2 and boulogne 1862-3. in 1875, he was commissioned to execute a painting at a price of 500 guineas.