John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)

Solihull Church from the grounds in front of Malvern Hall

细节

John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
Solihull Church from the grounds in front of Malvern Hall
pencil
3.3/8 x 5 in. (8.6 x 12.7 cm.)

来源

with Carfax Gallery.
Sotheby's London, unidentified sale, circa 1982.
with Anthony Reed, London, 1983.

出版

G. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, no. 09.38, pl. 773.

拍品专文

The present drawing has been dated to July 1809, on the basis of another drawing entitled Malvern Hall, the Entrance Front; and Solihull Church, which is inscribed 'left Town for Malvern - Saturday July 15 1809', see G. Reynolds, op.cit., no. 09.16, which is from the same sketchbook.

Malvern Hall was the seat of Henry Greswold Lewis. Constable had met Lewis through the Dysart family; Magdalena, Dowager Countess of Dysart was Lewis's sister. The object of Constable's visit was to execute a portrait of Lewis's ward Mary Freer, Reynolds, op.cit., no. 09.23, but Constable also made a number of landscape drawings in the same sketchbook and three oil paintings of the house; see Reynolds, op.cit., nos. 09.17-19.