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| Self-Portrait c1820-25 watercolour 19.1 x 11.8 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London |
Born of English parents, Bonington spent much of his short life in France. He studied initially in Calais with Louis Francia before moving to Paris. In 1818 he first met Eugène Delacroix and enrolled in the atelier of Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, where he formed a lasting friendship with Paul Huet, a fellow pupil.
He was one of the stars of the 1824 Paris Salon, where British art was so triumphant, and along with John Constable and Copley Fielding received a gold medal.
Bonington was an inveterate traveller and spent much time exploring the north coast of France. In 1825 he visited London with several French artists, including Delacroix, and in 1826 he travelled through Switzerland to Venice.
He died tragically young from consumption at the age of 26.
Bonington was one of the most important artists of the early nineteenth century, vital to the understanding of French and British art of the Romantic period. His range included history and subject paintings, and landscapes, highly-finished works and sketches, all imbued with a brilliance and sureness of touch which was greatly admired both during and after his lifetime.
For more detailed biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works, see parts 1 - 3 also.
This is part 4 of a 6-part series on the works of Richard Parkes Bonington:
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| 1826 View on the Grounds of a Villa near Florence oil on millboard mounted on canvas 43.1 x 58.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1826-27 Bologna etching National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1826-27 Man and Woman in a Landscape (Faust and Marguerite) pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite 11.4 x 15.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1826 A Knight and his Page pen and brush and brown ink over pencil 14.8 x 11.6 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Australia |
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| c1826 A Knight and Page, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s "Götz von Berlichingen" oil on canvas 46.4 x 38.1 cm Yale Centre for British Art |
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| c1826 Coast Scene in Picardy, France oil on canvas 66.4 x 99 cm Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK |
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| c1826 Francois le Pendus lithograph 13.7 x 16.5 cm (image) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| c1826 Goetz Von Berlichingen before the Imperial Magistrate pen and brown ink and brown wash with graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper 12.1 x 10.2 cm Yale Center for British Art |
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| c1826 Julian Peveril and Alice Bridgenorth, surprised by Major Ralph Bridgenorth pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of body-colour 11.4 x 9.5 cm |
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| c1826 Lady and Page pencil, watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 15 x 9 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| c1826 On the Adriatic oil on cardboard 30 x 43 cm Louvre Museum, Paris |
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| c1826 Portia and Bassanio watercolour 16.5 x 13 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| c1826 Souvenir of Van Dyck watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 19.1 x 12.7 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| c1826 The Earl of Surrey and Fair Geraldine pencil, watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 14 x 11.9 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| c1826 The Pont des Arts, Paris oil on board 35.6 x 45.1 cm Tate, London |
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| c1826 Water Basin at Versailles oil on canvas 43 x 54 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| 1827 A Lady dressing her hair pencil, watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 15.2 x 10.2 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| 1827 Campos sur les bords du Rio das Velhas lithograph (after Mortiz Rugendas) 24.2 x 32.5 cm (image) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| 1827 Old Man and Child watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 19.2 x 14.2 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| 1827 Pierre de Vaivre lithograph (after Baron Isidore Justin Taylor) 26.2 x 21.5 cm (image) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| 1827 Street in the Outskirts of Besançon, France lithograph The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1827 The Letter pencil, watercolour and body-colour with gum varnish on paper 15.1 x 10 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| 1827 Trees and a Cottage by a River black chalk and gum on medium, cream, smooth wove paper 15.9 x 20.6 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| 1827 Young Indian watercolour heightened with gouache, gum arabic 19 x 13 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| 1827-28 An Estuary with a Sailing Boat oil on millboard 22.9 x 35.3 cm National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, UK |
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| 1827-28 Port at low tide, Normandy oil on paper mounted on canvas 24.3 x 32.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon, France |
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| 1827-28 Study of a Gentleman in 17th Century Costume pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper 11.7 x 11.5 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| c1827-28 Landscape with two Windmills at Sunset watercolour, gum arabic, traces of gouache on wove paper 16 x 22 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| c1827 Francis I and Marguerite de Navarre oil on canvas 45.7 x 34.5 cm The Wallace Collection, London |
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| c1827 Francis I and the Duchess of Étampes oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Francis I and the Duchess d’Étampes watercolour heightened with gum varnish, on ivory wove paper 33.6 x 25 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1827 View of the Piazzetta near the Square of St Mark, Venice oil on canvas 45.7 x 37.5 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. The columns of St. Marks - Venice etching (size not given) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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