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Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead

Oil Painting
1819 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (painters (artists))
Place of origin
England (painted)

Constable moved to Hampstead in the summer of 1819 and Branch Hill Pond became one of his favourite subjects. He based several larger paintings on this sketch.

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, 1819
Physical description
This is catalogue no. 171 in Reynolds "Catalogue of the Constable Collection" (1960), plate 136.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 254mm
  • Estimate width: 300mm
  • Frame height: 453mm
  • Frame width: 505mm
  • Frame depth: 40mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'End of Octr. 1819' (Inscribed in ink by the artist, top bar of stretcher)
  • 'Isey' (Inscribed in pencil on stretcher, top left (Isabel Constable))
Gallery label
John Constable 1776-1837
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead
Dated 'End of Octr.1819'


Constable moved to Hampstead in the summer of 1819 and Branch Hill Pond became one of his favourive subjects. He based several larger paintings on this sketch.


Oil on canvas

Given by Isabel Constable 1888
Museum no. 122-1888
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1819 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy 'A scene on the River Stour' ('The White Horse'), bought by John Fisher, and now in the Frick Collection, New York (see the sketch-book No. 132, pp. 66 and 70). His second child Maria Louisa (Minna) was born on 19 July. He took a house at Hampstead for the first time at the end of the summer. He was elected A.R.A. on 1 November.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 121]
Subjects depicted
Ponds
Hills
Clouds
Place depicted
Hampstead
Summary
Constable moved to Hampstead in the summer of 1819 and Branch Hill Pond became one of his favourite subjects. He based several larger paintings on this sketch.
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.106
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 121, 122
  • p. 91 David Jackson, Werner Busch, Jenny Reynaerts, Andreas Blühm, and Ruud Schenk Romanticism in the North : from Friedrich to Turner. Groningen : Groninger Museum ; Zwolle : WBooks, [2017]. ISBN: 9789462582415
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
171, plate 136 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
122-1888

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Record createdSeptember 29, 2003
Record URL
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