Richard Parkes BoningtonEnglish, 1802–1828La Ferté
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Where is “La Ferté” now? Collection: The National Gallery, London. Unknown.
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- L1070
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — Richard Parkes Bonington · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Richard Parkes Bonington
The whole life1822–1824
Takes up oil painting and lithography
He began working in oils and took up lithography, illustrating Baron Taylor’s Voyages pittoresques dans l’ancienne France and producing his own architectural series, Restes et Fragmens.
1824
Wins a gold medal at the Paris Salon
He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon, together with John Constable and Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding.
1824
A year of coastal views at Dunkirk
He spent most of the year painting coastal views at Dunkirk. Coastal scenes make up most of his landscapes, with a low horizon and a large sky.
1825
Trip to London: Turner and the English school
He travelled to London with Delacroix to study the work of William Turner and the English school of painting, and the friends sketched together there. Other accounts say that Bonington went with Alexandre-Marie Colin and met Delacroix in London.
1826
Trip to northern Italy and a month in Venice
He visited northern Italy and stayed in Venice for a month.
February 1826
British Institution exhibition makes his name in England
The works he showed at the British Institution included “French Coast with Fisherman”. The exhibition established his reputation in his native England, where he had previously been largely unknown.
