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Hadleigh Castle is an oil painting by the English painter John Constable, created in 1829.. John Constable visited Hadleigh Castle in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle. . This he developed into a full-sized oil sketch in preparation for a finished painting, executed in 1829 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same y
Sketch for ‘Hadleigh Castle’ 1800s Tate National Gallery: Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Cart and Carters: 1825 Tate National Gallery: Susannah Lloyd: 1806 Tate: The Opening of Waterloo Bridge: 1832 Tate: Study of a Girl in a Cloak and Bonnet: 1810 Tate: Brightwell Church and Village: 1815 Tate: Fen Lane, East Bergholt: 1817 Tate ...
John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...
Hadleigh Castle was first built by Hubert de Burgh, the 1st Earl of Kent, who was a key supporter of King John. [4] De Burgh was given the honour of Rayleigh by John in 1215 as a reward for his services, but chose not to develop the existing caput of Rayleigh Castle, instead building a new fortification south of the town of Hadleigh. [4]
Dedham Lock and Mill is an c.1820 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable. [1] It shows a view of the River Stour at Dedham in Essex close to the border of his native Suffolk, an area now known as "Constable Country".
The artist selected a viewpoint from the bishop's garden (the south-east) and returned in 1820 to make further drawings and an open-air oil sketch, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, [3] which served as the model for the London version. Included in the paintings are figures of Dr. Fisher and his wife at the bottom left.
John Constable, Sketch for 'Hadleigh Castle' c. 1828 –9, 1226 × 1673 mm, Oil on canvas, London, Tate Gallery. The goal of John Constable's landscape paintings was to represent nature with honesty, to convey its beauty and simplicity without becoming pretentious. He is not the personification of nature's passion, poetry, or sorrow.
Harnham Gate, Salisbury is an 1821 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [1] [2] It depicts a view of the medieval Harnham Gate, at the southern end of the cathedral close in the Southern English cathedral city of Salisbury; the gate connects the city with the southern suburb of Harnham.