High Street, Arnold, Nottingham NG5
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High Street, Arnold, Nottingham NG5
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 23 Aug 2014
This Grade II-listed Georgian property known as "Bonington House" (a.k.a. 79, High Street) - is now the home of Arnold's Labour Club. It is apparently of early C18th construction. It was the birthplace of the English Romantic landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1801-28). When he was 16 years old the Bonington family moved to Calais where his father had set up a lace factory. There he was tutored in English watercolour techniques by François L. T. Francia. In 1818, the family moved to Paris to open a lace shop and in 1820 Richard began attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Unfortunately he contracted tuberculosis at some point. This worsened in the mid-1820s and his parents sent him to London for treatment. However, he died of T.B in 1828 at 29, Tottenham Street at the age of 26 years of age. Houses on Bond Street are visible beyond this plot.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.004257
Longitude
-1.129383