YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)The Lens of Impressionism - Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 (Dallas Museum of Art, 2010-02-21 - 2010-05-23)The Lens of Impressionism - Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 (University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2009-10-10 - 2010-01-03)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17)Richard Parkes Bonington (Yale Center for British Art, 1991-11-13 - 1992-01-19)Exhibition in Memory of Geoffrey Agnew (Thos. Agnew & Sons, 1988-06-01 - 1988-07-21)
Publications:
Carole McNamara, The lens of impressionism, photography and painting along the Normandy coast, 1850-1874 , University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Manchester New York [Lanham, Md.], 2009, p. 41, 193, N72 P5 M37 2009 + (YCBA)Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, pp. 141..., no. 44, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA)
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Born near Nottingham, Richard Parkes Bonington moved with his family to Calais at age fifteen and then to Paris the following year. Although he trained briefly in the studio of the history painter Antoine-Jean Gros, he seems to have been largely self-taught as a painter in oils and his inclination was toward landscape rather than history painting. His entire career as an oil painter lasted for only five years before he died of tuberculosis. But the brilliance, fluency, and sparkling naturalism of his paintings won considerable acclaim, and his reputation only grew after his early death. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016