| Description | This file contains various research notes on the life and works of Bonington created and compiled by Oppé, and includes:
-research notes on works by Bonington and many other artists in collections, including those in the collections of the British Museum, Hertford House, Percy Moore Turner, Agnews, Hickman Bacon (Thonock), Dashwood (Wilton House), Stephem Winkworth (Walton on the Hill), Thomas Girtin, Geoffrey Shakespeare, Dame Rosalind Paget, the Louvre and J. Isaacs
-research notes on original and published sources, including several notes regarding Eugéne Delacroix (1798-1863)
-page from an auction catalogue for the auction of the collection of Wilfred Hall on 1 May 1953
-page from an auction catalogue listing a work by Bonington, 'Terrasse a l'Orangerie, Versailles', held by Christies, dated 9 February 1935
-newspaper cuttings collected by Oppé including some which containing reviews of Shirley's 1941 Bonnington monograph by Oppé [only a heavily annotated fragment], John Piper, Laurence Binyon and Clive Bell
-a note which was kept between pp. 44-45 of Oppé's copy of Shirley's 1940 Bonington monograph
-an article: Fry, R. (1927) Bonington and French art. The Burlington Magazine, 51(297), pp. 268-274 |