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Richard Parkes Bonington
ca. 1825
Medium
Oil on millboard
Dimensions
11 x 13 in. (27.9 x 33 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, 2001
Accession Number
2001.45
Tags
Landscapes
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...