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A Coast Scene with Shipping
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A Coast Scene with Shipping

Artist (Arnold, Nottingham, England, 1802 - 1828)
Date1828
Mediumwatercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 13.7 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
Frame: Height: 34.1 cm, Width: 37.8 cm
AcquisitionAlexander Webster Bequest, 1921.
CopyrightOut of copyright
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG003277
Keywords
About MeAlthough most of his career was spent in France, Bonington, along with Turner and Constable, is considered to be an exponent of English Romanticism. This was a movement that regarded individual feeling and perception as more valid than the depiction of real objects or places.

'A Coast Scene with Shipping', painted in the final year of his life, exemplifies the luminous quality of Bonington's work. Unlike Turner and Constable, he preferred clear sunlight to stormy skies or sunsets. His paramount aim was clarity, delicacy of touch and brilliance of tone, achieved in this work by sudden contrasts and subtle colour combinations.

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