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A Fisherman on the Banks of a River, a Church Tower in the Distance

Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. clarkart.edu | Public Domain

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Date

c.1825-26

Artist

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828)

Collection

The Clark Art Institute

Image Link

https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/A-Fisherman-on-the-Banks-of-a-River,-a-Church-Towe

Description

While this scene on a riverbank offers up a vivid range of sense impressions—pale sky, blue haze at the horizon, soft air, a sighing breeze—it is also tinged with nostalgia, perhaps best embodied by the fisherman in the right foreground. His gaze may be directed at the hoped-for fish at the end of his line, or at the tall tree on the opposite bank, which rises up as a tour de force
of watercolor handling and mark-making. Bonington sometimes deployed materials and techniques from oil painting, which watercolor purists would have rejected as alien to the medium, to add to the depth and complexity of his compositions. Here, opaque gouache lends greater solidity and weight to some of the landscape elements.

Descriptive Medium

Watercolor and gouache, with traces of charcoal, with scraping, on cream wove paper

Image Licence

Public Domain

Image Credit

Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. clarkart.edu

Location

Netherlands

Country

Medium

Tags

Boats
Seascapes
Islands

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

TWW Comment

Could also be the UK.

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