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A Distant StOmer
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
cart
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
cow
ford
France
man
people
places
road
Saint-Omer
sheep
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
water: inland
woman
<p>Bonington was born near Nottingham but moved to Calais in 1817 with his parents. There they set up a lace-making business before settling in Paris the following year. Most of his short life was spent in France. Delacroix was not alone in admiring his 'marvellous grasp of effects and the facility of his execution'. Working at first in watercolour, Bonington took up oils around 1823. He spent most of 1824 in Dunkerque and probably painted this view of St-Omer from the Boulogne-Calais road that year.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
6 February 2003 – 4 January 2004
2004-01-04
6 February 2003 – 11 May 2003
2003-05-11
2003-02-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
8 June 2003 – 7 September 2003
2003-09-07
2003-06-08
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, USA)
2003-02-06
Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics 1820 - 1840
Exhibition
4 September 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
4 September 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
2004-09-04
Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2004-09-04
Turner and Constable and their European Contemporaries
Loan-out
15 November 2008 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
15 November 2008 – 15 February 2009
2009-02-15
2008-11-15
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
28 February 2009 – 3 May 2009
2009-05-03
2009-02-28
Ferens Art Gallery (Hull, UK)
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections
17 May 2009 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
2009-05-17
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (Hastings, UK)
2008-11-15
Coasting; Bonington, Turner and their Contemporaries on the Shores of the Channel
Loan-out
5 August 2010 – 17 April 2012
2012-04-17
5 August 2010 – 17 April 2012
2012-04-17
2010-08-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-08-05
Constable: Sketching from Nature
Collection based display
26 March 2015 – 27 May 2020
2020-05-27
26 March 2015 – 21 June 2015
2015-06-21
2015-03-26
Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City, Mexico)
18 July 2015 – 18 October 2015
2015-10-18
2015-07-18
Pinacoteca do Estado (São Paulo, Brazil)
27 April 2018 – 5 August 2018
2018-08-05
2018-04-27
Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai, China)
4 September 2018 – 13 November 2018
2018-11-13
2018-09-04
National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China)
2015-03-26
British Landscape
Tate partnerships & programmes
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
2019-03-27
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-03-27
Van Gogh and Britain
Exhibition
31 October 2022
4 October 2021
2021-10-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 8
Collection based display
A Distant View of St-Omer
support: 314 × 438 mm
frame: 580 × 695 × 105 mm
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
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<p>Richard Parkes Bonington moved to Calais with his parents in 1817 when he was 14. There they set up a lace-making business before settling in Paris the following year. Most of his short life was spent in France. He was admired by both English and French painters of the time. His paintings of the sea combine a sense of spontaneity and spaciousness with a close eye to detail.</p>
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adults animals: mammals architecture cart cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents cow ford France man people places road Saint-Omer sheep society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: land water: inland woman