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Bonington was born in 1802 near Nottingham,
England. In about 1817, Bonington’s family
moved to Calais, France. In 1818, Bonington
went to Paris, where Bonington Richard
Parkes met Eugene Delacroix
and made watercolor copies of Dutch and
Flemish landscapes in the Louvre. In
1821-1822, Bonington Richard Parkes studied under Antoine-Jean
Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Bonington’s first works, mostly sketches of
Le Havre and Lillebonne, were exhibited at
the Paris Salon in 1822. Bonington Richard
Parkes also began to
work in lithography, illustrating Baron
Taylor’s Voyages. In 1824, Bonington Richard
Parkes won a gold
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He traveled all over France and especially
in Normandy, painting coastal landscapes and
seaport scenes Coast of Picardy (1823-1824),
French River Scene with Fishing Boats
(1824), A Boat Beached in a Port at Low Tide
(1825); Bonington Richard Parkes also went to England and
Scotland, occasionally accompanied by
Bonington’s friend Eugène Delacroix, in
whose studio Bonington Richard Parkes later worked. In 1826,
Bonington visited Venice, where Bonington
Richard Parkes was
deeply impressed by Veronese and Canaletto:
St. Mark's Column in Venice (c.1826-1828),
The Doge's Palace, Venice (1827), Piazza San
Marco, Venice (1827). From 1824 Bonington
Richard Parkes experimented increasingly in romantic
subjects taken from history and studied
armor. Bonington’s best-known works on
historical subjects followed: Francis I and
Marguerite of Navarre, Henri III and the
English Ambassador (1827-1828), Venice. The
Grand Canal (1827). |
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Bonington, like
John Constable, was one of the English
artists whose landscapes were highly
regarded in France. Bonington Richard Parkes was among the first
artists in France to paint watercolors
outdoors rather than in studio. Bonington’s
approach to nature as well as Bonington’s
technique stimulated the Barbizon painters
and – with Eugene Isabey, Eugene Boudin and
Johann Barthold Jongkind as intermediaries –
paved the way for Impressionism.
Bonington died of tuberculosis in London,
only 26 years old. |
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