Richard Parkes Bonington

Purchased from the artist at the British Institution in 1826 by Sir George Warrender (1782–1849);

His sale, London, Christie’s, 3 June 1837, lot 15, to Herman;

Nicholas Joseph, 1st Marquis Maison (1771–1840), Paris;

From whom acquired by Henry McConnel (1801–1871) of Cressbrook, Derbyshire;

His sale (‘The Important Collection of Modern Pictures formed by that Distinguished Connoisseur Henry McConnel, Esq., Deceased’), London, Christie’s, 27 March 1886, lot 46, to Agnew’s for 450 gns.;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823–1906), by 1891;

By descent to his son, Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner (1859–1920) at the Glen, Peeblesshire;

By descent to his grandson Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1926–2010) at The Glen, Peeblesshire;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Family Trust’), London, Sotheby’s, 14 March 1984, lot 82, to Agnew’s on behalf of the present owners.

London, British Institution, 1826, no. 242;

London, Royal Academy, Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, 1891, no. 20;

New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Richard Parkes Bonington. On the pleasures of painting, 13 November 1991 – 19 January 1992, no. 49;

Paris, Petit Palais, Richard Parkes Bonington. On the pleasures of painting, 5 March 1992 – 17 May 1992, no. 49.

Literary Gazette, 4 and 18 February, and 1 April 1826;

La Belle Assemblée, March 1826, p. 136;

La Belle Assemblée, February 1827, p. 134;

P. Tennant, The Children and the Pictures, London 1907, reproduced opposite p. 154;

A. Dubuisson and C.E. Hughes, Richard Parkes Bonington: His Life and Work, London 1924, pp. 150 and 197;

W.T. Whitley, Art in England 1821–37, London 1930, pp. 99–100;

A. Shirley, Bonington, London 1940, pp. 30–31 and 145;

M. Cormack, Richard Parkes Bonington, Oxford 1989, pp. 66 and 97, reproduced pl. 77;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington. ‘On the pleasure of painting’, exh. cat., New Haven and London 1991, pp. 150–51, no. 49, reproduced in colour;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington. The complete paintings, New Haven and London 2008, pp. 41, 199 and 224–25, no. 184, reproduced in colour.

ENGRAVED

by J. D. Harding, published 1 June 1830