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

Harrow from the fields at Child's Hill

细节
John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt 1776-1837 London)
Harrow from the fields at Child's Hill
dated 'Sunday Augt 12th. 1821' (lower right)
pencil
6 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (16 x 24 cm.)
来源
Captain Charles Golding Constable; Christie's, London, 11 July 1887, lot 19 (15 gns to Noseda).
John Postle Heseltine (L.1508).
Mrs. Forty Van Winkle.
出版
W.W. May, Manuscript list of Captain Charles G. Constable's collection, 1880, no. 12.
J.P. Heseltine, Original Drawings by British Painters in the Collection of J.P.H[eseltine], London, 1902.
G. Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1984, p. 79, no. 21.42, pl. 248.
展览
London, South Kensington, 1880-1883, no. 99.
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拍品专文

This view of Harrow from Child’s Hill is part of a series of en plein air sketches executed by Constable on Hampstead Heath between 1820 and 1823. As with others, a large amount of paper is given over to the sky, creating the sense of height and expansive space from being situated at the top of a hill. However, this drawing is further free from the cows, carts and figures found in similar drawings from the series, grounded only by Harrow’s distinctive spire.
Constable started visiting Hampstead in 1819, before relocating full time in 1827. This sketch was made during the family’s first few summers. Much has been written about the detailed cloud formations of the later images, and this drawing is quite unusual for its use of bright shafts of sunshine casting shadows onto the landscape.
John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929) was a stockbroker, who formed an exceptional collection of Old Master and British drawings, as well as Old Master paintings. He gave several pictures to the National Gallery, London, where he was a Trustee, and prints and drawings to the British Museum.

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