Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Richard Parkes Bonington

View of Lerici with Baron Charles Rivet sketching in the foreground

Auction Closed

October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Parkes Bonington

Arnold 1801 - 1828 London

View of Lerici with Baron Charles Rivet sketching in the foreground

label on the verso of R. Davey

oil on millboard

millboard: 14 by 18 in.; 35.5 by 45.7 cm.

framed: 22 1/4 by 25 7/8 in.; 56.5 by 65.7 cm.

R.P. Bonington sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 June 1829, lot 217 (as Painting of a castle in the Mediterranean);
There acquired by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769 - 1830);
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 17 June 1830, lot 29;
There acquired by Lord Northwick, and by descent to John Rushout, 2nd Lord Northwick (1770-1859);
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 12 May 1838, lot 54 (as Sea View - Morning);
There acquired by B. Smith;
Francis Baring, by 1907;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 4 May 1907, lot 12;
There acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
Sir Gervase Beckett, by 1920;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 23 July 1920, lot 44a (to King);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1980, lot 122;
There acquired by Richard L. Feigen.

H. Mallalieu, "View of Lerici in 1826 makes a record £65,000," in Financial Times, 13 March 1980;

M. Cormack, Richard Parkes Bonington, Oxford 1989, p. 131, reproduced plate 103;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, "On the Pleasure of Painting," exhibition catalogue, New Haven 1991, p. 239, cat. no. 153, reproduced in color;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London 2008, pp. 328-9, cat. no. 264, reproduced in color p. 329;

J. Gardner, "A Poet in Paint," in Antiques CLXXVIII, no. 1 (January/February 2011), p. 201, reproduced in color p. 200, fig. 7;

P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, exhibition catalogue, New York 2018, unpaginated, cat. no. 22, reproduced in color.

Nottingham, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, R.P. Bonington 1802-1828, 10 April - 22 May 1965, no. 275;

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Paris, Petit Palais, Richard Parkes Bonington, "On the Pleasure of Painting," 13 November 1991 - 17 May 1992, no. 153;

London, Tate Britain; Minneapolis Museum of Arts; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics; New York title: Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, 5 February 2003 - 4 January 2004, no. 138;

New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Richard Parkes Bonington, 23 October - 18 December 2018, no. 22.

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Charles G. Lewis, published by Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, 12 August 1834 (as Bay of Spezzia).