# Richard Bonington artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-bonington/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:31:35.688Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Richard Bonington

The collected authority records identify Richard Bonington as a British painter born in 1768 and generally record his death in 1835. This identity requires careful separation from Richard Parkes Bonington, the younger English Romantic landscape painter described by the supplied Wikipedia source. The distinction is especially important because the collected Wikipedia page and portrait candidate concern Richard Parkes Bonington, while Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, ISNI, RKD, and Art UK links point toward the older Richard Bonington identity. The available pack supports painting as his occupation and work category, but it does not contain enough readable museum or scholarly material to assign a movement, characteristic subjects, named series, or a more detailed artistic chronology. Collectors may encounter works catalogued simply under “Richard Bonington,” so authority identifiers, dates, and attribution evidence should be checked before associating an object or auction result with this profile.

## Common works and media

The authority sources support paintings as the relevant work type, but the collected material does not reliably establish preferred media, recurring subjects, named series, prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, or other categories for this Richard Bonington. Objects carrying the Bonington name should be checked against the artist's authority identifiers and life dates before comparison with auction records, particularly because Richard Parkes Bonington is a separate and easily confused artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Market analysis for Richard Bonington should begin with identity resolution. The source pack exposes a material risk of mixing this British painter, recorded as born in 1768, with Richard Parkes Bonington. Comparable auction results are useful only after confirming that each lot belongs to the same artist identity and work category. The collected Appraisily page signals the presence of auction-price records, but its content was unavailable during collection, so no price trend or artist-specific valuation conclusion is supported here. The pack also lacks sufficient evidence to assign particular weight to condition, provenance, date, subject, or edition. Those object-level facts should be documented and assessed alongside verified public sale records when available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and can be matched to the correct artist.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21289727
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/75849602/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018539
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parkes_Bonington
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bonington-richard-17681835
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-bonington/