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Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:
A View from Hampstead Heath (?) [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Former Title(s):
The Thames Valley from Hampstead Heath [1984, Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, catalogue raisonné]
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 1/8 × 14 inches (25.7 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.17
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1976.7.17FR
Subject Terms:
brushstrokes | clouds | cows | field | landscape | meadow | pasture
Associated Places:
England | Greater London | Hampstead | United Kingdom
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:258
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Created by John Constable (1775-1837), the artist; possibly by descent to Charles Golding Constable (1821-1879), the artist's son; by descent to Charles Eustace Constable (1874-1899), Invercargill, New Zealand, the artist's grandson [1]; purchased by “Shepherd” from “Works of the late John Constable Sale” at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, April 16, 1896 (lot 71, ‘A Landscape, with cow’) [2] [a]; acquired by W. A. Kluger [3] [b]; acquired by Ronald Brymer Beckett (1891-1970) by 1956 [4]; purchased by John Baskett Ltd., London from Edward Speelman [5] [c], December 1969; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), January 1970; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, December 1976.

Notes:
[1] Christie, Manson & Wood’s April 16, 1896 auction catalog of Constable's work identifies this work as belonging to (Charles) Eustace Constable.
[2] Probably Messrs. Shepherd Brothers.
[3] Unclear when W. A. Kluger owned this work as no reference was found for this person. Reynolds does not list a gap of ownership between Kluger and Beckett.
[4] Exhibited in Constable show, Manchester Art Gallery, 1956, catalog number 68.
[5] Most likely acting on behalf of Ronald Brymer Beckett. Per John Baskett Ltd. stock book in the YCBA Archives.

Citations:
[a] Christie, Manson & Woods. April 16, 1896. Works of the late John Constable, R.A. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t2d87212q
[b] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 165 (v.1), no. 25.35, pl. 605 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)
[c] John Baskett papers. Yale Center for British Art, Archives, John Baskett Ltd. stock book, 1967-1990, Box 1377, pp. 42-43 [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3080199]

Christie's sale catalogue : Works of the late John Constable, R. A. . . . from the collection of Eustace Constable, Esq. : 16 April 1896, Christie's, London, 16 April 1896, p. 6, lot 71, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t2d87212q&view=1up&seq=3 Also available online at Art Sales Catalogues Online [Website]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 62-63, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 151, no. 661, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Constable, 1776-1837, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1956, no. 68, Not at Yale

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 165 (v.1), no. 25.35, pl. 605 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Charles Rhyne, Constable Drawings and Watercolors in the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art, Part I. Authentic Works , Master Drawings, vol. 19, Master Drawings Association, Inc., 1981, p. 140, note 2, NC1 M37 19 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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