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Richard Parkes Bonington

Personal Details Name Richard Parkes Bonington Place of Birth Arnold, England Date of Birth 25 October 1802 Date of Death 23 September 1828 Field Painter

Career:

   In 1818, the family moved to Paris to open a lace retail outlet. It was Paris where he first met Eugene Delacroix, who he became friends with. He worked for a time producing copies of Dutch and Flemish landscapes in the Louvre. In 1820, he started attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros.

It was around this time that Bonington started going on sketching tours in the suburbs of Paris and the surrounding countryside. His first paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1822. He also began to work in lithography, illustrating Baron Taylor’s "Voyages pittoresques dans l'ancienne France" and his own architectural series "Restes et Fragments".

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