Bridge of Turck

Richard Parke Bonington (1802-1828)

This oil on board depicts a lady and child crossing a stone bridge with a man on horseback in the stream and the horse drinking. There are some sheep in the lower right. It is signed in the lower left.

This painting has two markings of Bonington--first, the unfinished way he signed his name on his picture by only partially lettering it or seemingly to have scrawled it with his brush handle; secondly, his featureless faces for which he is known Although the faces are painted without features they appear to have features due to the details around the faces It also shows very strongly the inflluence of Constable had on him as most of his pastoral scenes are painted along a stream.