Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington

Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonnington is a portrait painting by the English artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter, from c. 1827-1830. It depicts her fellow artist Richard Parkes Bonington.

Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington
Artist	Margaret Sarah Carpenter
Year	1827-1830
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions	76.2 cm × 63.5 cm (30.0 in × 25.0 in)
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London

Bonington painted landscapes and cityscapes in the romantic style. He enjoyed success at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1828 but died a few months later of tuberculosis at the age of twenty five.^[1] He was a friend of Carpenter, a noted portraitist of the Regency and early Victorian era.^[2] It was exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1833. Reviewers noted the pale look of Bonington in her portrait.^[3]

Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1877.^[4] A copy of the mezzotint version of the work by John P. Quilley is also in the collection.^[5]