Hadleigh | England | Europe | Essex | Hadleigh Castle | Thames | United Kingdom | Thames Estuary
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Exhibition History:
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)John Constable: The Late work (Royal Academy of Arts, 2021-10-30 - 2022-02-13)Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018-01-29 - 2018-05-13)Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The National Gallery, London, 2018-06-13 - 2018-10-07)Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Constable - The Great Landscapes (Tate Britain, 2006-06-01 - 2006-08-28)Constable - The Great Landscapes (National Gallery of Art, 2006-10-01 - 2007-01-02)Constable - The Great Landscapes (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2007-02-03 - 2007-04-29)Masters of British Painting: John Constable (Musée du Louvre, 2002-10-08 - 2003-01-13)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable and his drawings, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London, UK, 1990, pp. 228-29, fig. 213, NJ18 C74 F53 1990 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Constable's Hadleigh Castle and British Romantic Ruin Painting, Art Bulletin, v. 65., no. 3, September, 1983, pp. 458- 459, 460, fig. 4, N11 C4 + (YCBA) Also Available online via JSTORLouis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 159, no. III.31, pl. 133, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 151, no. 658, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)Anne Lyles, Late Constable, Royal Academy of Arts, London, p. 78, no. 13, NJ18.C74 A12 2021 Oversize (YCBA)Leslie Parris, Constable, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 312-12, fig, 86, NJ18 C74 P372 1991 + (YCBA)Leslie Parris, The Tate Gallery Constable collection : a catalogue, , Tate Britain, London, UK, 1981, pp. 131, 133, NJ18 C74 P374 + (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, p. 147 [v.1], 10.18, 848 [v.2], NJ18 C74 R484 1996 + (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 201 (v.1), no. 29.3, pl. 706 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)Charles Rhyne, Constable Drawings and Watercolors in the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art, Part I. Authentic Works , Master Drawings, vol. 19, Master Drawings Association, Inc., 1981, p. 140, nite 2, NC1 M37 19 (YCBA)Sotheby's, Constable : Dedham Vale with the River Stour in Flood from the Grounds of Old Hall, East Bergholt : Auction in London / Sotheby, Sotheby's, London, p. 20, V 2762 (YCBA)Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, pp. 206-7..., no. 120, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA)The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 4, 28, cat. 24, V2722 (YCBA)The British Castle, A Symbol in Stone, , The Wall Street International, May 11, 2017, https://wsimag.com/art/25777-the-british-castle-a-symbol-in-stoneThe Grosvenor Gallery, Winter Exhibition ( First Notice ) , Athenaeum, no. 3196, January 26, 1889, p. 122, Available Online: British Periodicals II Also Available: A88 At421 + OVERSZE (SML)William Vaughan, John Constable, Tate Publishing, London, 2015, pp. 80,83, 100, fig. 55, NJ18.C74 V28 2015 (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 36, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
John Constable’s election as a full member of the Royal Academy in February 1829 came just months after the devastating death of his wife, Maria. Despairing, he wrote: “could I get afloat on a canvas of six feet, I might have a chance of being carried away from myself.” He began this oil sketch in 1828, more than a decade after visiting Hadleigh Castle in the summer of 1814 and describing it in a letter to Maria. In spite of, or perhaps fueled by, both his depression and the pressure of being a full Academician, he delivered the completed six-foot painting to the Academy in 1829. This impressive work can now be viewed in the Center’s fourth-floor galleries. Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)