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A Windmill near Brighton

Oil Painting
1824 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil on paper entitled 'A Windmill near Brighton'.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Windmill near Brighton
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Brief description
Oil painting, 'A Windmill near Brighton', John Constable, 1824
Physical description
Oil on paper entitled 'A Windmill near Brighton'.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 15.7cm
  • Approx. width: 24.4cm
  • Frame height: 41.5cm
  • Frame width: 56.7cm
  • Frame depth: 4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1824 Constable's sole exhibit at the Royal Academy was 'A Boat passing a Lock' ('The Lock') (now in the collection of Mr. S. Morrison). 'The Hay Wain', the 'View on the Stour near Dedham' and a 'View of Hampstead Heath' were exhibited at the Salon in Paris in this year. He took his wife and family to Brighton for the first time in May, and himself spent some time in London and some with them in Brighton, returning before them at the end of August.
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 269
  • p. 113 Shân Lancaster, ed. Constable and Brighton: something out of nothing. London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017. ISBN: 9781785510694.
Collection
Accession number
158-1888

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Record createdMay 14, 2007
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