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View in a Garden with a red house beyond

Oil Sketch
ca. 1821 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

It is thought that Constable painted this view from an upstairs window of his home in Lower Terrace, Hampstead, looking over his own garden and towards a neighbouring house. The effect of motion in the trees on a windy day is conveyed by vivid dabs of yellow and white paint.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil sketch
TitleView in a Garden with a red house beyond (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch, 'View in a garden with a red house beyond' by Constable.
Physical description
Dark landscape with a red house and clothes on a clothes line.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 35.5cm
  • Estimate width: 30.5cm
  • Frame height: 54.5cm
  • Frame width: 50cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
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]
Subject depicted
House
Summary
It is thought that Constable painted this view from an upstairs window of his home in Lower Terrace, Hampstead, looking over his own garden and towards a neighbouring house. The effect of motion in the trees on a windy day is conveyed by vivid dabs of yellow and white paint.
Bibliographic references
  • Schulze, Sabine, (ed.) The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight, Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 135, 144, 146, 147
  • Gayford, Martin and Anne Lyles, Constable portraits: the painter and his circle, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2009.
Other number
232, plate 176 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
136-1888

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Record createdJuly 20, 2006
Record URL
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