The Grand Canal
Richard Parkes Bonington
1826/1827
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 26 x 34.7 cm (10 1/4 x 13 11/16 in.) framed: 46 x 54.6 x 7.9 cm (18 1/8 x 21 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Victoria and Roger Sant
Accession Number
2001.87.1
About the Artist
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1802–1828
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...