The availability of tube paints has opened…

The availability of tube paints has opened the outdoors to painters who wish to capture landscapes directly from nature rather than perform studio translations of pen-and-pencil sketches into color from memory.

The influential young English Romantic landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington, has, by example, popularized watercolors on the Continent, until now a province of British artists.

Unfortunately, the 26-year-old Bonington dies of tuberculosis in London in September 1828.