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John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt, Suffolk 1776-1837 Hampstead, London)
Lot 169

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

Dedham church, Essex

Fermé2 December 2014

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John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt, Suffolk 1776-1837 Hampstead, London)
Dedham church, Essex
inscribed and dated '22d Sept. 1815 -Dedham' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed in ink (verso)
pencil
6 x 3 ½ in. ( 15.2 x 9 cm.)

C. Bostock; Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1946 (part of lot 71) (£2,000 to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London.
where purchased by Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, and by descent.

Note du spécialiste

Reynolds records this drawing as 'untraced'. It is an exciting rediscovery of an unusual view of Dedham, a village about six miles from Constable's home in East Bergholt. The church and neighbouring vicarage are the central focus of the composition which is a different vantage point from Constable's other Dedham drawings of 1815. Other drawings depict the village and tall church tower from a distance, nestled in the landscape (see op.cit., nos. 15.44, 15.45, 15.44A, 15.46). Constable's focus on the architecture may have been inspired by the re-modelling with gothic embellishments of the vicarage (on the right of the church) in 1815.

The present sheet is from a large sketch book of laid paper, which Constable was using in 1814 and in 1815 and which measured approximately 3 ¾ x 6 ¼ (9.6 x 15.8 cm).

We are grateful to Anne Lyles for help in preparing this catalogue entry.