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A Windmill near Brighton

Oil Painting
3 August 1824 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (maker)
Place of origin
England (made)

Windmill near Brighton. Oil on paper.

Object details

Categories
Images Online
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleA Windmill near Brighton (popular title)
Materials and techniques
oil on paper
Oil Colour
Paper (Fiber Product)
Oil Painting
Brief description
Windmill near Brighton by John Constable (British, 1776-1837); oil on paper; Britain; 1824.
Physical description
Windmill near Brighton. Oil on paper.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 16.2cm
  • Estimate width: 30.8cm
  • Frame height: 41.3cm
  • Frame width: 56.5cm
  • Frame depth: 4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
Brighton Augst. 3d 1824 Smock or Tower Mill west end of Brighton the neighbourhood of Brighton - consists of London cow fields - and Hideous masses of unfledged earth called the country. (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist. Inscription is repeated in ink in another hand. Leslie (L. ed. S., p. 172) repeats the last line of the inscription in a footnote to Constable's letter of 29 August 1824 railing at Brighton. No. 272 [Museum No. 126-1888] may show the same mill.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1824 Constable's sole exhibit at the Royal Academy was 'A Boat passing a Lock' ('The Lock') (now in the collection of Mr. S. Morrison). 'The Hay Wain', the 'View on the Stour near Dedham' and a 'View of Hampstead Heath' were exhibited at the Salon in Paris in this year. He took his wife and family to Brighton for the first time in May, and himself spent some time in London and some with them in Brighton, returning before them at the end of August.
Subjects depicted
Windmill
Landscapes (Representations)
Place depicted
Brighton
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 148
  • Bouhours, Jean-Michel, ed. Lumière, transparence, opacité. Monaco: Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2006. ISBN: 88-7624-903-6.
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 268
  • p. 114 Shân Lancaster, ed. Constable and Brighton: something out of nothing. London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017. ISBN: 9781785510694.
Other number
268, plate 204. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
149-1888

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Record createdNovember 11, 2002
Record URL
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