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Hampstead: Stormy Sunset

Oil
31/07/1822 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Cloudy landscape with sunset, trees.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil
TitleHampstead: Stormy Sunset (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Oil Paint
Paper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch of a view over Hampstead by Constable, England, 19th century.
Physical description
Cloudy landscape with sunset, trees.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 16.2cm
  • Approx. width: 30.5cm
  • Frame height: 417mm
  • Frame width: 570mm
  • 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
'July 31. 1822 Stormy sunset' (Inscribed on the back in ink by the artist)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1822 Constable's exhibits at the Royal Academy included: 'View on the Stour near Dedham' (now in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino) (see sketch-book No. 132, p. 52), 'View from the Terrace, Hampstead' (see No. 252) and 'A study of Trees from Nature' (see No. 223). Constable's fourth child Isabel, the donor of the greater part of the collection catalogued here, was born at No. 2 Lower Terrace, Hampstead, on 23 August.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 152]
Place depicted
Hampstead
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.114
  • Morris, Edward, ed. Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable , Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN 1903278058 (paperback), 1903278066 (hardback).
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 152, 153
  • Chivian-Cobb, Hermine, (ed.), Constable's Oil Sketches 1809-29: the Maria Bicknell Years, New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 2007.
  • Ulrich Bischoff, Luc Tuymans & Andreas Dehmer, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: Shock to the senses. Dresden :Staatliche kunstsammlungen ;Sandstein,2013. 9783954980277
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
248, plate 187 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
336-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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