Born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk, John Constable (1776–1837) transformed landscape painting in Britain with countryside scenes from the Dedham Vale …
Oil painting entitled 'Dedham Lock and Mill' by John Constable. Great Britain, 1820. Physical description. This is the third and last version of the subject, and represents Constable's final thoughts about the subtly orchestrated composition. It is one of the artist's most beautiful and justifiably famous pictures.
Catalogue entry. N01820 Dedham Lock 1820s. Oil on paper, 6 1/4×10 (16.5×25.4) laid on panel. Inscribed on the paper-edging on the back of the panel: 'Dedham by Constable RA bought July 1870 - This picture …
Physical description. Painting of a mill with large trees on the right-hand side in oil on paper. Dimensions. Estimate height: 18.1cm. Estimate width: 24.8cm. Frame height: 452mm. Frame width: 504mm. Frame depth: 40mm. Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, …
Constable was born at East Bergholt, Suffolk, the son of a corn and coal merchant and farmer. He devoted much of his life to painting the local landscape, the scenes of his 'careless boyhood' which, he said, 'made me a painter' (in R.B. Beckett, ed., John Constable's Correspondence, VI, Ipswich 1968, p.78).He went to work for his father in …
John Constable (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home - now known as "Constable Country"- which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John ...
David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets. Born in East Bergholt, a village on the River Stour in Suffolk, John Constable (1776–1837) transformed landscape painting in Britain with countryside scenes from the Dedham Vale he knew so intimately. His father, Golding Constable, a wealthy corn merchant, owned first Flatford Mill in East Bergholt and ...
Flatford Mill was the first of Constable's 'six footers' and is another work now at Tate Britain. It was shown at the Royal Academy in 1818 as Scene on a Navigable River and re-named Flatford Mill in 1819. The mill was owned by Golding Constable, father of the artist and a farmer, miller and corn merchant.
John Constable RA (1776 - 1837) Under dramatic rainclouds, a boat is tied up, waiting to continue its journey upstream. The central figure, a man in a red waistcoat holding a large crowbar, strains to open the lock mechanism. He is bare-footed and is more likely to be a boatman rather than the lock keeper. Thirteen locks were installed on the ...
In this painting, a boat waits to enter a lock before moving upstream as threatening rainclouds pass overhead. John Constable captures a momentary weather condition, which animates the painting and dramatises the figure of the lock keeper with his red jacket silhouetted against the horizon. Constable was fascinated by cloud formations and the …
The agitated brushwork of the trees at the right is comparable to the handling in some of Constable's Flatford lock sketches of 1810–11: see, for example, the sketch formerly in Lord Binning's collection and now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California (TG 1976 No.95, H. 112).
Constable, John (RA) (artist) Place of origin. Dedham Mill (painted) This view depicts a mill that belonged to John Constable's father. You can …
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) (1816). Oil on canvas, 102 x 127 cm (40.1 x 50 in). Tate Britain, London
Oil Paintingca. 1816 (painted) This sketch is based upon a small pencil drawing dated 22 July 1816. It depicts a mill belonging to Constable's …
A full-scale, unfinished sketch for the resulting Dedham Lock and Mill, ca. 1816–17, is in Tate (London), while the finished or "exhibition" version is in a private collection. ... John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, - ) [YCBA Objects in ...
4. 'The Hay Wain' (1821) by John Constable. The National Gallery, London. Source Wikimedia Commons. The first thing I ever learnt about the artist John Constable was a little trick he used in ...
Constable deleted the figure at the left – a man opening the lock gates – in the final composition. See this painting and find out more on the V&A's website. 3. The Valley Farm 1835. John Constable. The Valley Farm (1835) Tate. This late painting shows a view of Willy Lott's House at Flatford from the River Stour.
John Constable (1776-1837) 'Dedham Lock and Mill' ?1817, © Tate One of the treats for me of the Laing's current exhibition of Sketching from Nature is …
This spirited and atmospheric sketch dates from circa 1820, and is a preliminary study for one of Constable's most popular depictions of the area surrounding his home: Dedham Lock and Mill.Dedham Mill, like that at Flatford – further downstream on the River Stour – was operated by Constable's father, Golding Constable.
N01816 The Mill Stream Circa 1810. Oil on board, 8 3/16×11 1/2 (20.8×29.2). Prov: Lionel Constable, sold Christie's 2 March 1874 (168, 'The Mill Stream. A sketch for the picture '), bt. Wigzell £43. 1s. for Henry Vaughan 1 and bequeathed by him to the National Gallery 1900; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1919. Accession No. 1816.
Private collection, England. Catalogue note. This spirited and atmospheric sketch dates from circa 1820, and is a preliminary study for one of Constable's most popular depictions of the area surrounding his home: …
In preparation for the V&A's 2014 major exhibition, 'Constable: Making of a Master' a number of the Museum's oil sketches by John Constable were remounted and reframed. The process revealed many surprising discoveries, including a previously unrecorded work, hidden by an old canvas lining. Constable's oil sketches are fascinating objects to ...
A "lost" painting by John Constable found hanging on the wall of a terrace house in Guernsey showing a different view of a farm cottage that features in one of his most celebrated works has ...
Features. John Constable (1776 – 1837) transformed the way we see the English landscape. Our rich collection of works by Constable ranges from drawings made directly from nature, to oil paintings that demonstrate the inventiveness and vitality for which he is renowned. Highlights include the full-scale preparatory sketch for 'The Hay Wain'.
They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. John Constable (born June 11, 1776, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England—died March 31, 1837, London) major figure in English landscape painting in the early 19th century. He is best known for his paintings of the English countryside, particularly those …
It was a view that John Constable sketched and painted dozens of times. From the top of Hampstead Heath, London's highest point at 134 metres (440ft), the artist would look west and north ...
John Constable RA (1776 - 1837) One of the greatest landscape painters, John Constable devoted his career to capturing nature on his canvases. He is one of Britain's best-known artists but he sold few paintings in his lifetime. Born near the River Stour in Suffolk, Constable spent much of his life painting the scenes of his 'careless ...
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings, and the first in the Stour series which later included The Hay Wain. It is owned and exhibited at the Tate ...
The Lock was one of a sequence of large pictures of Suffolk canal scenes that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. It shows a lock-keeper opening the gates of Flatford Lock while a barge waits in the basin for the water-level to drop. When exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824, the picture sold on the opening day ...
In "Dedham Lock and Mill" Constable succeeds in showing us his unique view of the English landscape he loved most. Learn more about Dedham Lock and Mill …