Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.54
Gallery Label:
It seems likely that this painting was a studio composition rather than a view, because Richard Parkes Bonington incorporates, with great facility, a number of familiar English and Dutch motifs: Turnerian trees on the left, for example, and the angular, rather geometrical stumps and blocky foreground barge, all joined by a windmill plucked from Rembrandt. This may not be entirely fair, though, since we know Bonington sketched windmills near Mantes in about 1825. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022
