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Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

Oil Painting
ca. 1821-1822 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (painted)

Branch Hill Pond was one of Constable's favourite subjects. This sketch depicts the view from Jack Straw's Castle, an old coaching inn. In September 1821 Constable wrote: 'We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & colour - as is always the case with such seasons as the present'.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleBranch Hill Pond, Hampstead (popular title)
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead', John Constable, ca. 1821-1822
Physical description
Landscape with low horizon, painted in direct sunlight.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 24.5cm
  • Estimate width: 39.4cm
  • Frame height: 51cm (Note: Taken from frame)
  • Frame width: 61.1cm (Note: Taken from frame)
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
Landscape
Place depicted
Hampstead
Summary
Branch Hill Pond was one of Constable's favourite subjects. This sketch depicts the view from Jack Straw's Castle, an old coaching inn. In September 1821 Constable wrote: 'We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & colour - as is always the case with such seasons as the present'.
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. 135, 145-147
  • The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Impressionism, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2007 42
  • Ulrich Bischoff, Luc Tuymans & Andreas Dehmer, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: Shock to the senses. Dresden :Staatliche kunstsammlungen ;Sandstein,2013. 9783954980277
Other number
233, plate 177 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
125-1888

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Record createdJuly 23, 2003
Record URL
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