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Updated: July 2, 2025
They imitated him as to externals; the spirit of him they could not ensnare. Turner knew him; so did Bonington. Delacroix understood him. So did Chardin, himself a solitary in his century.
No! they were not, whatever sentimental people may say who maunder about the ages of faith and refresh themselves with other such lackadaisical phrases. Richard disputed the right, and protested that his land was not heriotable. Bonington pleaded his might in a very effectual way, and took his heriot to wit, the best horse which Richard had in his stable, the best and probably the only one.
"Poor things! they have a lot to bear." "The little children!" murmured Aunt Charlotte, with a flushing cheek and shining eyes; "it 's rather pathetic." "Children indeed!" said Mrs. Mattock. "It puts me out of all patience to see the way that they neglect them. People are so sentimental about the poor." Lady Bonington creaked again.
J.T. Judkin, himself a skilful painter an ardent admirer and steadfast friend. "Bonington was tall, well, and even to appearance, strongly formed. 'His countenance, says the French biographer, 'was truly English; and we loved him for his melancholy air, which became him more than smiles. The memory of his person will soon wear away; but it will fare otherwise with his fame.
Forster, a lady distinguished by her own talent as well as from being the daughter of Banks the sculptor, contains the following passage: 'When Bonington visited England, in 1827, I gave him a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas Lawrence, but he returned to Paris without having delivered it.
She was the poor woman who " "Did not, I am certain, Lady Bonington." The tone of his voice had made someone laugh uneasily; the subject was changed. All divorce was against his convictions, but in a blurred way he admitted that there were cases where release was unavoidable. He was not a man to ask for confidences, or expect them to be given him.
Here and there, too, we come upon heriots remitted because the heir was so very poor, and here and there fines and fees are cancelled causa miseriæ propter pestilentiam. Surely it is better to assume that this kind of thing was done, as our friend Bonington puts it, mero motu pietatis suæ than because there was no money to be had.
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