Golding Constable's House, East Bergholt: the Artist's birthplace
Date:
ca. 1809
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
5 3/4 × 10 inches (14.6 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.105
Gallery Label:
Constable’s father was a prosperous corn merchant and owned water mills in the Stour Valley at Flatford, Dedham, and East Bergholt, close to the large family house over which he presided, the rear view of which this sketch records. If Constable had extended this composition further to the left, he could have included the parish church of East Bergholt, which was located close to his father’s home. Gallery label for An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
