Richard Parkes Bonington
The Grand Canal Venice Looking Toward the Rialto
Corso Sant' Anastasia Verona
Near Honfleur
Honfleur
Beached Vessels and a Wagon near Trouville France
Fishmarket
Grand Canal Venice
A Cutter and other shipping in a Breeze
Francis I. and Margaret of Navarre
Landscape near Quilleboeuf, France
The Salt Marshes near Trouville
In the Forest of Fontainebleau
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and his wife Amy Robsart
Shipping Off the Coast of Kent
The Corsa Saint- Anastasia Verona with the Palace of Prince Maffet
Coastal Scene with Fishing Boats
Charles V visits François Ier after the Battle of Pavia (watercolor on paper)
Study of a Woman with her Head on her Hand
A Wooded Stream and a Farmhouse in Normandy
The Church of St. Wulfran, Abbeville: The North Door of the West Front
Study of a Gentleman in 17th Century Costume, After Van Dyck
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The Grand Canal Venice Looking Toward the Rialto
Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1801 – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France. Becoming after his very early death one of the most influential British artists of his time, the facility of his style was inspired by the old masters, yet was entirely modern in its application. His landscapes were mostly of coastal scenes, with a low horizon and large sky, showing a brilliant handling of light and atmosphere. He also painted small historical cabinet paintings in a freely-handled version of the Troubadour style.
Life and work
Francois I and Marguerite of Navarre, (45.7 by 34.5 cm), based on the discovery of a scratched inscription on a window at the Chateau de Chambord
Richard Parkes Bonington was born in the town of Arnold, four miles from Nottingham.[1] His father also known as Richard was successively a gaoler, a drawing master and lace-maker, and his mother a teacher. Bonington learned watercolour painting from his father and exhibited paintings at the Liverpool Academy at the age of eleven.
In 1817, Bonington's family moved to Calais, France, where his father had set up a lace factory. At this time, Bonington started taking lessons from the painter François Louis Thomas Francia,[3] who – having recently returned from England where he had been deeply influenced by the work of Thomas Girtin[4] – taught him the English watercolour technique. In 1818, the Bonington family moved to Paris to open a lace shop. There he met and became friends with Eugène Delacroix. He worked for a time producing copies of Dutch and Flemish landscapes in the Louvre. In 1820, he started attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros.[3]
It was around this time that Bonington started going on sketching tours in the suburbs of Paris and the surrounding countryside. His first paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1822. He also began to work in oils and lithography, illustrating Baron Taylor’s Voyages pittoresques dans l'ancienne France and his own architectural series Restes et Fragmens. In 1824, he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon along with John Constable and Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, and spent most of the year painting coastal views in Dunkirk.[3]
In 1825 he met Delacroix on a visit with Alexandre-Marie Colin to London, and they sketched together there, and shared a studio for some months in Paris on their return; Delacroix influenced him in turning to historical painting. He also developed a technique mixing watercolour with gouache and gum, achieving an effect close to oil painting. In 1826 he visited northern Italy,[5] staying in Venice for a month,[6] and London again in 1827-8. In late 1828 his tuberculosis worsened and his parents sent him back to London for treatment. Bonington died of tuberculosis on 23 September 1828 at 29 Tottenham Street in London, aged 26.[5]
Reputation
Landscape near Quilleboeuf, c. 1824–1825. Yale Center for British Art
Delacroix paid tribute to Bonington's work in a letter to Théophile Thoré in 1861. It reads, in part:
When I met him for the first time, I too was very young and was making studies in the Louvre: this was around 1816 or 1817...Already in this genre (watercolor), which was an English novelty at that time, he had an astonishing ability...To my mind, one can find in other modern artists qualities of strength and of precision in rendering that are superior to those in Bonington's pictures, but no one in this modern school, and perhaps even before, has possessed that lightness of touch which, especially in watercolours, makes his works a type of diamond which flatters and ravishes the eye, independently of any subject and any imitation.[7]
To Laurence Binyon however, "Bonington's extraordinary technical gift was also his enemy. There is none of the interest of struggle in his painting."[6]
Bonington had a number of close followers, such as Roqueplan and Isabey in France, and Thomas Shotter Boys, James Holland, William Callow and John Scarlett Davis in England. In addition, there were many copies and forgeries of his work made in the period immediately after his death.[8]
A statue to him was erected outside the Nottingham School of Art by Watson Fothergill, and a theatre[9] and primary school in his home town of Arnold are named after him. In addition, the house in which he was born (79 High Street, Arnold) is now named ‘Bonington House’ and is Grade II listed.[10] The Wallace Collection has an especially large group of 35 works, representing both his landscapes and history paintings.
References and sources
References
"Arnold" in Chambers's Encyclopædia. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 633.
Novotny, 171
Ingamells, 19
Binyon, pp.166 – 7
Ingamells, 19-20
Binyon, pp.169
Noon, Patrick: Richard Parkes Bonington "On the Pleasure of Painting", page 12. Yale University Press, 1991.
Reynolds, Graham (1998) [1971 (as A Concise History of Watercolour))]. Watercolours. World of Art. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 108.
"Arnold". Gedling Borough Council website. Gedling Borough Council. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
Gedling Borough Council Planning and Environment Department Local Plans Section (6 December 2005). "Listed Buildings" (PDF). Gedling Borough Council. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
Sources
Binyon, Laurence (1933). English Watercolours. London: A&C Black.
Cambridge, M (2002). Richard Parkes Bonington: Young and Romantic. Nottingham: Nottingham Castle ISBN 0-905634-58-6 (Catalogue of exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum in 2002; contains an account of the life and works that includes many references.)
Ingamells, John, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, Vol I, British, German, Italian, Spanish, Wallace Collection, 1985, ISBN 0-900785-16-0
Novotny, Fritz (1971). Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880. Pelican History of Art (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 0-14-056120-X.
Further reading
Noon, P (2009). Richard Parkes Bonington : the complete paintings. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-13421-5
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