Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Property of a distinguished British Collection
Dedham Church, Suffolk
Auction Closed
July 6, 10:38 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a distinguished British Collection
John Constable, R.A.
East Bergholt, Suffolk 1776 - 1837 Hampstead
Dedham Church, Suffolk
Pencil on watermarked laid paper;
inscribed lower left: 22 Sepr. 1815 - Dedham; further inscribed in the same manner in pen and ink verso
152 by 92 mm
The village of Dedham, on the Essex/Suffolk border, is at the heart of 'Constable Country' – the area of England where Constable lived and painted for much of his life. Constable went to school in Dedham, each morning walking alongside the River Stour from his family's home in East Bergholt to get there.
Many of the artist's best known paintings feature Dedham, including Dedham Mill, which his father owned, and the church, whose massive Caen stone and flint tower is a focal point of the surrounding Dedham Vale.
The present drawing is precisely dated, 22 September 1815. For the first half of that year, Constable was living in London, exhibiting eight canvases at the Royal Academy, but from early July until the end of the year he lived and worked in Suffolk.
A former owner of this drawing was Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, who formed an important art collection. He was the younger son of Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt.
