Live Auction 7783Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 223

John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt 1776-1837 London)

A farm house among trees in the Lake District, near Borrowdale (?)

Closed9 December 2009

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GBP 12,500

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John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt 1776-1837 London)
A farm house among trees in the Lake District, near Borrowdale (?)
pencil and watercolour on paper
5 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (13.6 x 18.1 cm.)

Sir Robert Witt (L. 2228b).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 March 1979, lot 6.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1980, lot 99.
with Spink, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1989, lot 115.

Specialist note

Constable spent September and October of 1806 travelling in the Lake District. The loose handling of the watercolour in the present lot is typical of the works he painted on this tour, sketched outside and characterised by free, vigorous brushstrokes. Reynolds (op.cit.) lists the present watercolour among a number executed in and around Borrowdale, but does not explicitly suggest that this is the location of the farmhouse.