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A Village Fair, probably at East Bergholt

Oil Sketch
July 1811 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Painting of a village in oil on canvas.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil sketch
TitleA Village Fair, probably at East Bergholt (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch, 'A village fair, probably at East Bergholt' by Constable.
Physical description
Painting of a village in oil on canvas.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 17.2cm
  • Estimate width: 35.5cm
  • Frame height: 415mm
  • Frame width: 570mm
  • 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
Painted in 1811. (Inscribed in ink on the label on the stretcher)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'In the year 1811 Constable's exhibits at the Royal Academy comprised 'Twilight', and 'Dedham Vale: morning' (now in the collection of Sir Richard Proby). He visited Suffolk in the spring and paid his first visit to Salisbury in the autumn: this was probably the occasion of his first meeting with John Fisher, who was to become his closest friend. His attachment to Maria Bicknell became known during this year, and he received her father's permission to write to her in October.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 69]
Subject depicted
Fairs
Place depicted
East Bergholt
Bibliographic references
  • 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, pp. 69, 70, 72
  • p. 155 Ian Collins, ed. Masterpieces. Art and East Anglia Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2013. ISBN: 9780946009626.
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
101, plate 60. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
128-1888

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Record createdJuly 14, 2006
Record URL
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