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 - 5 also.
This is part 6 of a 6-part series on the works of Richard Parkes Bonington:
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| n.d. Château d’Arlay lithograph 19.8 x 25.9 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| n.d. Christ preaching (unfinished), after Rembrandt oil on canvas 32.4 x 40.7 cm |
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| n.d. Coastal Fishing Village (attributed to) oil on canvas 38 x 51 cm Museum of Gloucester, UK |
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| n.d. Cromer, Norfolk (Attributed to) oil on panel 30.7 x 46.1 cm Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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| n.d. Dieppe Harbour oil on canvas 24.5 x 48.6 cm Perth & Kinross Council, UK |
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| n.d. Fort Rouge (attributed to) oil on canvas 44 x 64 cm Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK |
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| n.d. Group of wounded Soldiers pencil and watercolour 20 x 25.6 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Honfleur graphite and white chalk on tan wove paper 27.3 x 24.5 cm Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop |
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| n.d. Ile de la Cite watercolor on medium, cream, slightly textured, wove paper 20.6 x 28.9 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| n.d. La Place du Molard, Geneva oil on panel 52 x 62.8 cm Abbotsford House, Melrose, UK |
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| n.d. Landscape viewed through a stone Arch pencil and watercolour on cream wove paper 11 x 13.4 cm © Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| n.d. Landscape with Castle Ruin watercolour? The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| n.d. Maison, Grand Rue St. Pierre (Caen) lithograph Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| n.d. Marine oil on canvas 31.1 x 24.1 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. Near Jumieges watercolour 20.9 x 31.1 cm |
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| n.d. Near Rouen, France oil on panel 25.5 x 32.5 cm Tameside Museums and Galleries Service: The Astley Cheetham Art Collection, UK |
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| n.d. Notre Dame Cathedral, Rouen lithograph 24.2 x 16.2 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| n.d. Old Cherbourg, France oil on panel 21.8 x 31.2 cm Museums Sheffield, UK |
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| n.d. Palais de Justice, Rouen graphite on medium, beige, moderately textured wove paper 30.2 x 12.4 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Boy brush and brown ink on cream wove paper 6.6 cm diameter Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| n.d. Portrait sketch of a man in a brown hat watercolour on cream wove paper 10.2 x 7.3 cm © Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| n.d. Praying Monk crayon or Conté crayon 37.3 x 26.8 cm J.P.E. Klaverwyden Fund, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia |
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| n.d. Road Workers, near Lillebonne brown wash over graphite on thick, cream, slightly textured wove paper 10.5 x 16.2 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Rocky Coast chalk & crayon on paper 11 x 27.4 cm Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK |
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| n.d. Rouen (attributed to) oil on canvas 61 x 45.5 cm Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK |
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| n.d. Rouen - Entre de la Salle des Pas Perdus lithograph 26.8 x 17.8 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Rouen - Fontaine de la Crosse lithograph 23.2 x 26 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Rural Scene by the River Seine, Paris (attributed to) oil on canvas 31.8 x 44.2 cm Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK |
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| n.d. Sea Coast, the Dunes oil on paper laid on canvas 31.7 x 46.8 cm Norfolk Museums Service, UK |
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| n.d. St. Valery, View from the Banks of the Somme aquatint after Bonington Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| n.d. Street Scene graphite on paper 15.6 x 21.3 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| n.d. Study after the monument of Edward III in Westminster Abbey pencil, pen and ink on cream wove paper 16.7 x 18.6 cm © Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| n.d. Study of a seated Man (attributed to) pencil 13 x 8.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Australia |
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| n.d. Study of a Seated Woman graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper 17.8 x 13 cm Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| n.d. Study of a woman with her head on her hand pen and ink on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper 10.5 x 12.4 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection |
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| n.d. The Count of Palatino in the costume of a Palikar oil on panel 38.7 x 23.5 cm |
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| n.d. The Old Jetty, Boulogne, France oil on millboard 30.7 x 25 cm Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, UK |
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| n.d. The Piazzetta, Venice oil on panel 15.2 x 20.5 cm Museums Sheffield, UK |
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| n.d. The Serenade (after Bonington) engraving by C. Rolls National Gallery of Victoria, Australia |
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| n.d. The Temple pf Juno Lucina Girgenti lithograph Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| n.d. Tomb in the Church of Saint-Omer, France oil on wood panel 19.2 x 14.6 cm Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, UK |
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| n.d. Two Men monochrome wash over pencil 20.6 x 14.9 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, CA |
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| n.d. Untitled lithograph 5.2 x 6.6 cm Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Untitled lithograph, with white gouache and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper 7.3 x 5.8 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Untitled lithograph, with white gouache and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper 9.7 x 6.2 cm Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund |
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| n.d. Verona pencil and grey wash with touches of watercolour 7.9 x 16.2 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, CA |
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| n.d. View of Paris with Notre Dame oil on panel 18.9 x 13.5 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, CA |
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| n.d. View of the City of Lyons, France oil on panel 21.5 x 28 cm Museums Sheffield, UK |
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| n.d. View taken from the Road to Calais to Abbeville lithograph Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund |
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| n.d. Village on the Edge of a Lake pencil 13.3 x 20.6 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Sir Bruce Ingram Collection, CA |
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| n.d. General view of the ruins of château d' Arlay Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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