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The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Richard Bonington was born on October 25, 1801 near Nottingham, England, but in his sixteenth year the family moved to Calais, and thereafter he was only an occasional visitor to England. For this reason the majority of his landscapes have French or Italian subjects.
He studied at the Louvre and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris; by his training, his wo (showing 500 of 2134 characters). |