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Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington

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Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington
ArtistMargaret Sarah Carpenter
Year1827-1830
TypeOil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions76.2 cm × 63.5 cm (30.0 in × 25.0 in)
LocationNational Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonnington is a portrait painting by the English artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter, from c. 1827-1830. It depicts her fellow artist Richard Parkes Bonington

Bonington painted landscapes and cityscapes in the romantic style. He enjoyed success at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1828 but died a few months later of tuberculosis at the age of twenty five.[1] He was a friend of Carpenter, a noted portraitist of the Regency and early Victorian era.[2] It was exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1833. Reviewers noted the pale look of Bonington in her portrait.[3]

Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1877.[4] A copy of the mezzotint version of the work by John P. Quilley is also in the collection.[5]

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  • Barber, Tabitha (ed.) Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520-1920. Tate Britain, 2024.
  • Tankard, Alex. Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives. Springer, 2018.