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A Coast Scene with Shipping

Artist Richard Parkes Bonington (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

Coast

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.