Dedham Lock and Mill, John Constable, 1820

John ConstableVerenigd Koninkrijk, 1776–1837

Dedham Lock and Mill

1820 · Oil painting · 53.7 × 76.2 cm

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About the painting

This view depicts a mill that belonged to John Constable's father. You can see the sluice and lock gate on the River Stour, and the tower of Dedham church. It is based on an oil sketch, one of several versions of the composition.

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Gegevens

Inventarisnummer: FA.34[O]

What it shows

Boats Canal, Lock Landscape Dedham

In de catalogus

British School Dedham Mill

Bronnen

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Intussen, in het leven van John Constable

Het hele leven

1821
“The Hay Wain” at the Royal Academy
The picture, shown as “Landscape: Noon”, found no buyer, but it was seen by the painter Théodore Géricault and the writer Charles Nodier. According to Delacroix, Géricault went back to France quite stunned and invited Constable to Paris, while Nodier urged French artists to look to nature rather than to trips to Rome.
1821
“I should paint my own places best”
In a letter to his friend John Fisher in 1821 Constable wrote that he should paint his own places best, and that painting is but another word for feeling. The Dedham Vale around his home came to be known as “Constable Country”.
1821
Son born: Charles Golding Constable
23 October 1821
To Fisher: “I have done a good deal of skying”
Constable wrote to Fisher that he had done a good deal of skying and was determined to conquer all the difficulties that remained. He made cloud studies, noting the weather, direction of light and time of day on the back, and held the sky to be the key note of a landscape, drawing on the meteorologist Luke Howard’s classification of clouds.
1822/1823
Daughter born: Isabel Constable