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Richard Parkes Bonington Biography

Bonington was born in 1802 near Nottingham, England. In about 1817, his family moved to Calais, France. In 1818, he went to Paris, where he met Eugene Delacroix and made Richard Parkes Bonington watercolors copies of Dutch and Flemish landscapes in the Louvre. In 1821-1822, Richard Parkes Bonington studied under Antoine-Jean Gros at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. First Richard Parkes Bonington paintings, mostly sketches of Le Havre and Lillebonne, were exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1822. The painter also began to work in lithography, illustrating Baron Taylor’s Voyages. In 1824, Rhe won a gold medal at the Paris Salon.

He traveled all over France and especially in Normandy, Richard Parkes Bonington 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); Richard Parkes Bonington also went to England and Scotland, occasionally accompanied by his friend Eugène Delacroix, in whose studio he later worked. In 1826, Richard Parkes Bonington painter visited Venice, where he 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 Richard Parkes Bonington experimented increasingly in romantic subjects taken from history and studied armor. Best-known Richard Parkes Bonington paintings on historical subjects followed: Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre, Henri III and the English Ambassador (1827-1828), Venice. The Grand Canal (1827).

Bonington, like John Constable, was one of the English artists whose landscapes were highly regarded in France. The painter was among the first artists in France to paint Richard Parkes Bonington watercolors outdoors rather than in studio. his approach to nature as well as his technique stimulated the Barbizon artists 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.