Painter, born near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. About 1817 his family moved to Calais, and there and at Paris he studied art, and became a friend of Delacroix. His first works were exhibited in the Salon in 1822, mostly sketches of Le Havre and Lillebonne. He excelled in light effects achieved by the use of a large expanse of sky, broad areas of pure colour, and the silhouetting of dark and light masses, as well as his rich colouring of heavy draperies and brocades.
Richard Parkes Bonington (December 25, 1802 - September 28, 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter.
Richard Parkes Bonington was born in the town of Arnold, a suburb of Nottingham in England. Bonington learned watercolour painting from his father and exhibited paintings at the Liverpool Academy at age 11.
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, who trained him in English watercolour painting.
In 1818, the family moved to Paris to open a lace retail outlet.
It was around this time that Bonington started going on sketching tours in the suburbs of Paris and the surrounding countryside.
Bonington died of tuberculosis on September 28, 1828 at 29 Tottenham Street in London, only 26 years old.
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Examples of Richard Parkes Bonington's work
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