Excerpt from Early English Water-Colour<br><br>Note the means of rectifying the attribution of drawings to the wrong authors.<br><br>It will be observed that I have given 1802 as the date of Bonington's birth, instead of 1801, which until recently has been generally accepted. This alteration, curtailing by one year a life already amazingly short for the quality of its achieve ment, calls for a word of explanation. The error was made so far back as 1840, or earlier, and was blindly copied by biographers until it occurred to Mr. Richard Mellors, of Nottingham, to search the parish registers of the High Pavement Chapel, which Bonington's parents attended. Here the birth date is given as 1802. (see Thoroton Society's Transactions, vol. Xiii.) This I have myself verified by the collateral evidence of newspapers at the time of the artist's birth and of notices in various publications within a few years of his death.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.