Seapiece: Off the French Coast

c. 1823/1824

Richard Parkes Bonington

Artist, British, 1802 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 37.7 x 52 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
    framed: 51.8 x 65.4 x 5.4 cm (20 3/8 x 25 3/4 x 2 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1982.55.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Henri de Rothschild. John, 1st Baron Astor of Hever [1866-1971], Hever Castle, Kent, by 1951;[1] by descent, through his wife, Lady Violet Nairne [d. 1965], to George, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne [b. 1912];[2] sold 1979 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); purchased February 1980 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1982 to NGA.
[1] Possibly inherited from his grandmother, Charlotte [1824-1899], who owned a number of Boningtons, according to letter from the Rothschild Archive dated 30 July 1998 in NGA curatorial files. The painting is listed in The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy 1769-1868, Royal Academy, (London, 1951-1952), 94, no. 208, as "Lent by Colonel the Hon. J.J. Astor". [2] Son of the Lady Violet, Baroness Astor of Hever, by her first marriage to Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne (killed in World War I), according to Townsend, Peter, ed., Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 104th ed. (London, 1967), 122, 1446.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1827

  • Perhaps Royal Academy, London, 1827, no. 373.

1951

  • The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy, London, 1951-1952, no. 208.

1961

  • Bonington, Guildhall, King's Lynn, 1961, no. 6.

1962

  • Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings by R. P. Bonington, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd. London, 1962, no. 6, repro.

1965

  • R. P. Bonington, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, 1965, no. 252.

1966

  • Bonington, les débuts du romanticisme en Angleterre et en Normandie, Musée de Cherbourg, 1966, no. 46.

Bibliography

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 51, repro.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 21-23, color repro. 22.

Wikidata ID

Q20184821

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