Drawings & Watercolours from the Collection of a Connoisseur

RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON (BRITISH 1802-1828)
Study after the monument to Sir Francis Vere, Westminster Abbey
inscribed verso: after Tomb in Westminster abbey, Sir aubry [sic] de Vere / R.P. Bonington/ S.K.Book; pen and brown ink over traces of pensil; 14.6 x 19.6 cm (5.7 x 7.7 in)
together with another drawing of a kneeling figure attributed to Alexandre-Marie Colin and inscribed lower right, Westminster; pencil on prepared paper, 22.7 x 14.7 cm (9 x 5 3/4 in)
both unframed, mounted (2)

Provenance: The first: with The Alpine Gallery, London by 1971; sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 June 1982, lot 569; the second: sale Christie's, 5 March 1974, lot 84 (as by Richard Parkes Bonington).
Exhibited: The first: London, The Alpine Gallery, Exhibition of Early English Watercolour, April 1971, unnumbered.
Literature: The first: Reproduced, Burlington Magazine, March 1971, p. IXXXII; P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The Complete Drawings, Yale 2011, p.119, no.212;
the second: P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The Complete Drawings, Yale 2011, p.13, fig. 12 where it is attributed to Alexandre-Marie Colin.