Buildings on rising ground near Hampstead

Physical description

Colourful landscape with rolling hills.

Place of Origin

England, Great Britain (made)

Date

13 October 1821 (made)

Artist/maker

John Constable, born 1776 - died 1837 (artist)

Materials and Techniques

Oil on paper

Marks and inscriptions

Octr - 13th. 1821. - 4 to 5 afternoon - very fine with Gentle Wind at N.E.

Dimensions

Height: 24.8 cm estimate, Width: 29.8 cm estimate

Object history note

Given by Isabel Constable, 1888

Historical context note

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]

Descriptive line

Oil sketch, 'Buildings on rising ground near Hampstead' by Constable.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 135, 143
The following is an extract from the text of the entry:

The topography of the pond and the paths on the rising ground beyond bear a resemblance to those features in the painting 'The Salt Box' (Tate Gallery, No. 1236). This may therefore be a sketch from nature of the Branch Hill Pond and the house known as The Salt Box (Davies, pp. 26, 29, and 37-9).
Hermine Chivian-Cobb, ed. Constable's Oil Sketches 1809-29. The Maria Bicknell Years New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries LLC, 2007.
Exhibition catalogue
Christine Dixon, Ron Radford and Lucina Ward, Turner to Monet. The Triumph of Landscape Painting Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2008. ISBN: 9780642541635.
Exhibition catalogue

Exhibition History

Turner to Monet. The Triumph of Landscape Painting (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 14/03/2008-09/06/2008)
Constable's Oil Sketches 1809-29. The Maria Bicknell Years (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York 03/04/2007-16/06/2007)
Cloud Images: The Discovery of Heaven, from John Constable to Gerhard Richter (Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau 27/02/2005-08/05/2005)
Cloud Images: The Discovery of Heaven, from John Constable to Gerhard Richter (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin 24/09/2004-30/01/2005)
Cloud Images: The Discovery of Heaven, from John Constable to Gerhard Richter (Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 06/06/2004-05/09/2004)

Materials

Paper; Oil paint

Techniques

Oil painting

Subjects depicted

Hampstead

Categories

Paintings

Collection code

PDP