Bonington Richard Parkes View of Rouen from the side of the embankments description

Bonington Richard Parkes (born Richard Parkes Bonington, October 25, 1802, Arnold, Nottingham - September 23, 1828, London) - an English artist, a representative of romanticism in painting.
Delacroix in a letter to Theophilus Torus in 1861 so spoke of Bonington: "When I first met him, I was also very young and studied the works in the Louvre: it was about 1816 or 1817 ... He already had amazing abilities in the genre of watercolors, which was an English novelty of the time ... In my opinion, other modern artists can find the strength and accuracy of images that surpass the work of Bonington, but no one in this modern school, and perhaps even before that, did not have the ease of touch that , especially in the aquarium see, making it work like a diamond, caressing and captivates the eye, independent of any object and any emulation. " Bonington died in London from tuberculosis on September 23, 1828 at the age of 25 years.