View on the Grounds of a Villa near Florence
Medium
Oil on millboard, mounted on canvas
Dimensions
43.1 × 58.4 cm (17 × 23 in.); Framed: 60.4 × 76.2 cm (23 3/4 × 30 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185775
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...