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Study of Sky and Trees at Hampstead

Oil
2 October 1821 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)
Hampstead (made)

A landscape with trees and visible rooftops under a blue sky with white clouds.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil
TitleStudy of Sky and Trees at Hampstead (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Oil Paint
Paper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch of the sky and trees at Hampstead by Constable, England, 19th century.
Physical description
A landscape with trees and visible rooftops under a blue sky with white clouds.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 24.5cm
  • Approx. width: 29.8cm
  • Frame height: 418mm
  • Frame width: 574mm
  • Frame depth: 40mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Ocr. 2d. 1821. 8. to 9. very fine still morning. turned out a may day. Rode with Revd. Dr. White. round by Highgate. Muswell Hill. Coney Hatch. Finchley. by Hendon Home.' (Inscribed on the back in ink by the artist.)
  • 'JC' (Also inscribed in ink with the monogram.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
The chief of Constable's four exhibits in 1821 was 'Landscape: Noon' ('The Hay Wain') (National Gallery No. 1207; for the full-scale sketch see No. 209 [987-1900] in this Catalogue). His third child, Charles Golding Constable, was born on 29 March. He accompanied Archdeacon John Fisher on his visitation of Berkshire in June, took No. 2 Lower Terrace, Hampstead, for his family during the summer and autumn and paid a visit to Fisher at Salisbury in November.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 135]
Subjects depicted
Trees
Sky
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).
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 135, 143, 146, 147
  • Hoozee, Robert (ed.), British Vision. Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950, Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Ghent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2007 183
Other number
226, plate 170 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
168-1888

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Record createdJune 27, 2006
Record URL
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