Live Auction 8608Christie's Interiors
Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)
Lot 404

Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)

Study of trees

Closed9 April 2013

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Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)
Study of trees
pencil on brown paper
6¾ x 5½ in. (17.2 x 14 cm.)

Given by the artist to Lewis Brown and by descent to his nephew
Col. John Lewis Brown (L. 307d) and by descent to his
daughter, Louise Lewis Brown.
Jean Dieterle; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1985, lot 22.
with Richard Feigen, New York, 2007.
Charles Ryskamp (+); Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2011, lot 193.

Specialist note

Lewis Brown has been described as 'possibly the most discerning collector ever to have purchased Bonington's work' (M. Pointon, The Bonington Circle: English Watercolour and Anglo-French Landscape 1790-1855, Brighton, 1985, p. 131). An importer of wine from Bordeaux, he was based in London but frequently travelled to and from Calais, and may have bought some of Bonington's works in France. His choice collection was sold in two distinguished auctions in Paris in 17-18 April 1837. Many of Bonington's works once in Lewis Brown's collection are now in the Wallace Collection, London.