Seapiece: Off the French Coast

Seapiece: Off the French Coast by Richard Parkes Bonington

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 37.7 x 52 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/2 in.) framed: 51.8 x 65.4 x 5.4 cm (20 3/8 x 25 3/4 x 2 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Paul Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1982.55.1

About the Artist

Richard Parkes Bonington · 18021828

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) was a British painter and watercolorist who, despite dying at the age of twenty-five, produced a body of work that had a profound and lasting influence on French and British painting. Born in Arnold, near Nottingham, he moved with his family to Calais and then Paris in 1817, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Antoine-Jean Gros and copied Old Mas...

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