Old Masters Evening Sale
Old Masters Evening Sale
John Constable, R.A.
A woodland scene 《樹林一景》
Auction Closed
December 8, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Constable, R.A.
East Bergholt, Suffolk 1776 - 1837 Hampstead
A woodland scene
inscribed on a label on the reverse: Road scene with trees and a brook (?)/ By J Constable RA/ from Miss Isabel Constable to Clifford Constable
oil on canvas
31.7 x 26.5 cm.; 12½ x 10½ in.
約翰・康斯特勃，R.A.
1776年生於薩福克郡東貝格，1837年卒於漢普斯特德
《樹林一景》
款識：題款Road scene with trees and a brook (?)/ By J Constable RA/ from Miss Isabel Constable to Clifford Constable（背面標籤）
油彩畫布
31.7 x 26.5 公分；12 ½ x 10 ½ 英寸
Miss Isabel Constable (1822–1888), the artist's daughter;
By descent to her nephew Clifford Constable (1864–1904);
His sale, London, Christie's, 23 June 1894, lot 56, for £45–3s. to Weigzell;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Phillips, 11 June 1985, lot 42;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), Godalming, Hampton Fine Art, 22 April 1988, lot 270;
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1997, lot 85;
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Charles Rhyne suggests that this painting may be a study from nature showing the influence of Jacob van Ruisdael, whose work Constable was studying in about 1800-01.1 During this period, Constable was working in Derbyshire and Staffordshire as well as Suffolk and living primarily with his sister Martha's parents-in-law, the Whalleys, at Fenton in Staffordshire. This painting and a few other works that survive from this early period in Constable's career show the emergence of a confident and naturalistic approach to landscape painting, which was to culminate in his first Royal Academy exhibit in the following year.
1 Quoted in Reynolds 1996, p. 38.