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Richard Parkes Bonington
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(1802–1828) English painter who lived from the age of sixteen in France, moving there because in 1817 his father set up a business in Calais. Almost immediately the young Bonington moved to Paris, where he studied with Antoine-Jean Gros and became a friend of Delacroix. Bonington rapidly established a reputation for the brilliance of his watercolours, and from 1822 the search for landscape subjects kept him continually on the move – along the Seine and round the coasts of France in 1822-4, to London with Delacroix in 1825, to Venice in 1826-7. Bonington was also an accomplished painter in oils, producing romantic versions of scenes from history in the so-called 'troubadour style'. He died tragically young, at twenty-six, of tuberculosis.
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