Physical description
The moon is rising, or the sun is setting, behind the porch. Three figures are on the path leading to the porch. The canvas has been relined at an unknown date. The new stretcher is inscribed in ink, perhaps copying an inscription on the original canvas "Church Porch evening J. Constable R A."
Place of Origin
Suffolk, England (probably, painted)
Date
ca. 1810 (painted)
Artist/maker
John Constable, born 1776 - died 1837 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm estimate, Width: 30.1 cm estimate
Object history note
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context note
Constable exhibited two pictures, entitled 'A Landscape' and 'A Churchyard', at the Royal Academy in 1810. The latter is believed to be No. 1245 in the Tate Gallery (see No. 99 [128-1888] in this Catalogue).
[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 68]
Descriptive line
Oil painting, 'Porch of East Bergholt Church', John Constable, ca. 1810
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Parris, Leslie and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991. ISBN 1854370707 / 1854370715. 544 p. : ill. (some col.).
Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 68, 69
The following is an extract from the text of the entry:
"The canvas has been relined at an unknown date. The new stretcher is inscribed in ink, perhaps copying an inscription on the original canvas, Church Porch evening J. Constable R.A.
The moon is rising, or the sun is setting, behind the porch. Three figures are on the path leading to the porch.
A view of the same section of the church, from a viewpoint slightly further to the left, is No. 1245, now in the Tate Gallery, which is believed to have been the picture 'A Churchyard' exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810, and is almost certainly the picture 'A Church porch' exhibited at the British Institution in 1811 (Davies, pp. 26-27). The latter showed "the stillness of a summer afternoon", and the view held by Davies that No. 99 [138-1888] is "vaguely connected" with his No. 1245 is to be preferred to that of Shirley (L. ed. S., p. 37) that it is a study for the latter. Either consideration leads more or less decisively to a dating of c.1810, which is also arrived at by Holmes, p. 242."
Vikutoria & Arub?to Bijutsukan-z? : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum / selected by Mark Evans [Japan : Brain Trust], 2002. 185 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Exhibition History
The Romantic Tradition in British Painting 1800-1950: Masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Kobe, Japan 28/01/2003-06/04/2003)
The Romantic Tradition in British Painting 1800-1950: Masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Koriyama City Museum of Art 22/11/2002-27/12/2002)
The Romantic Tradition in British Painting 1800-1950: Masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya, Japan 19/10/2002-11/11/2002)
The Romantic Tradition in British Painting 1800-1950: Masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan 24/08/2002-06/10/2002)
Constable (Tate 13/06/1991-15/09/1991)
Materials
Oil paint; Canvas
Techniques
Oil painting
Subjects depicted
Landscape; Church; Moon; East Bergholt
Categories
Paintings
Collection code
PDP
