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Paintings, Room 88, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

A View at Hampstead with Trees and Figures

Oil Painting
1822 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (painter (artist))

Landscape with figures, a field, trees, and a cloudy sky.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleA View at Hampstead with Trees and Figures (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Oil Paint
Paper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'A View at Hampstead with Trees and Figures', John Constable, 1822
Physical description
Landscape with figures, a field, trees, and a cloudy sky.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 24.2cm
  • Approx. width: 29.8cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'July, 30th 1822. Noon under the Sun.' (Inscribed on the back in ink by he artist.)
  • 'M.L.' (Inscribed on the back in ink (initials of Maria Louisa Constable))
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
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, p. 152
  • Ulrich Bischoff, Luc Tuymans & Andreas Dehmer, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: Shock to the senses. Dresden :Staatliche kunstsammlungen ;Sandstein,2013. 9783954980277
Other number
246, plate 185 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
165-1888

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Record createdMay 14, 2007
Record URL
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