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Description: | The artistic career of Richard Parkes Bonington was pitifully short. He died of consumption at the aged of 26 and had little time to develop his artistic talent. Yet, his early achievements were astonishing. Bonington was born in 1802 near Nottingham. In 1817, he moved with his parents to Calais in France, where he started to paint. Later, he studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was remembered for talking ceaselessly of Turner and reading medieval histories. Bonington was mainly a landscape painter and undertook regular sketching tours along the French and Dutch coast from 1821. He was charmed by the visual effects of open air, sea and natural light. This painting of a French coastline shows all the particular features of Bonington's work: lovely colours, the effects of light and an attention to detail. Fortunately, his talent was duly recognised during his brief life. The great French artists Delacroix and Corot admired his watercolours and his works were awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824.
Oil painting showing a yellow sandy beach and steely blue sea. Three children sit together on the beach. The sky is pale and cloudy. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Ships Seascape Childhood Fine arts Oil painting Europe Georgian period France Boats Sand Coast Sands Ocean waves Beaches Sailing ships Countryside Landscape Oil Paintings Seashore Coastal waters Children Coastal zones Paintings People Art collections | Temporal: | 1815 - 1828
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | PARKES BONINGTON; RICHARD (1802 - 1828) (after) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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