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A View at Hampstead: Evening

Oil
31/07/1822 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Hampstead (made)

Landscape with clouds and low horizon.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil
TitleA View at Hampstead: Evening (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Oil Paint
Paper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch of a view over Hampstead by Constable, England, 19th century.
Physical description
Landscape with clouds and low horizon.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 16.5cm
  • Approx. width: 29.8cm
  • Frame width: 56.9cm (Note: Taken from frame)
  • Frame height: 41.6cm (Note: Taken from frame)
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Evning, 31st July, 1822 Shower Approaching' (Inscribed on the back in ink by the artist)
  • 'Evening July 1822 J Constable R A Hampstead' (Inscribed on the back in ink, not by the artist)
  • 'Schroth' (Inscribed in pencil on the back by the artist.)
  • '9' (Inscribed below 'Schroth')
  • '3d' (Inscribed below on left.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1822 Constable's exhibits at the Royal Academy included: 'View on the Stour near Dedham' (now in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino) (see sketch-book No. 132, p. 52), 'View from the Terrace, Hampstead' (see No. 252) and 'A study of Trees from Nature' (see No. 223). Constable's fourth child Isabel, the donor of the greater part of the collection catalogued here, was born at No. 2 Lower Terrace, Hampstead, on 23 August.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 152]
Place depicted
Hampstead
Bibliographic references
  • Morris, Edward, ed. Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable , Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN 1903278058 (paperback), 1903278066 (hardback).
  • Gray, Anne and John Gage, Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, p. 152
  • The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Impressionism, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2007 43
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
247, pl. 186 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
337-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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