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Stormy Landscape,
1831
John Constable, 1776–1837; born East Bergholt, England; died Hampstead, London, England
1998-869
Constable’s fascination with changing weather conditions is captured in this rapid outdoor sketch, which was made toward the end of his successful career as a landscape painter. On the verso of the drawing is a letter, dated December 19, 1831, and sent from Well Walk House in Hampstead, a fashionable suburb of London, where Constable and his family lived from 1827 to 1837. The hilly setting is one Constable would have seen at Hampstead Heath—still one of London’s best-loved green spaces—which afforded sweeping panoramas and open skies.
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Stormy Landscape
Dates
1831
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Medium
Brown ink and white heightening
Dimensions
11.7 x 18.5 cm. (4 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John B. Elliott, Class of 1951, Collection
Object Number
1998-869
Inscription
in ink, on verso: My Dear Mrs Walley | I was much delighted [illegible]
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