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Spring: East Bergholt Common

Oil Painting
ca. 1814 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Landscape with a windmill and figure with horses in oil on panel

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleSpring: East Bergholt Common (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Oil Paint
Panel
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch on oak panel, 'Spring: East Bergholt Common' by Constable, ca. 1821 - 1829.
Physical description
Landscape with a windmill and figure with horses in oil on panel
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 19cm
  • Approx. width: 36.2cm
  • Frame height: 41.8cm
  • Frame width: 57cm
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
In 1814 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy 'Landscape: Ploughing scene in Suffolk' (see note on No. 122); also 'Landscape: the ferry', probably the painting 'Mill Stream' now in the Ipswich Museum. He visited the Revd. Mr. Driffield at Feering in June (See Nos. 124-128) and spent much of the rest of the year in Suffolk.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 90]
Subjects depicted
Plough: Horse Drawn
Windmill
Place depicted
East Bergholt
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, cat. no. 122, pp. 90-92
Other number
122, plate 94 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
144-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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