His friend Eugène Delacroix wrote that his works were “a type of diamond which flatters and ravishes the eye, independently of any subject and any imitation.” Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot recognized him as the first truly naturalistic landscape painter to work in France, where his subtle approach to color and atmosphere deeply influenced the later Barbizon painters. So why is it that you’ve probably never heard of Richard Parkes Bonington?
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