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A Barge on the Stour

A barge and figures, trees and a horse.

Constable frequently depicted the working waterways that were so crucial to his father’s business of trading and transporting coal on and around the River Stour.

  • 103
  • 1832
  • 11.5cm x 19.3cm
  • V&A
  • Oil on Canvas
  • Oil on Canvas, 1832, 11.5cm x 19.3cm, V&A
  • Flatford
  • Less Known
  • 51.95904,1.01664

Details

The exact location of this sketch is unknown.

Donated to the V&A by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist in 1888

*Isabel Constable was the last surviving daughter of the painter and gave the contents of her father’s studio to the Victoria & Albert Museum, making them the principal collector of Constable’s work which included 395 oil paintings, sketches, drawings, watercolours and sketchbooks.

  • 103
  • 1832
  • 11.5cm x 19.3cm
  • V&A
  • Oil on Canvas
  • Oil on Canvas, 1832, 11.5cm x 19.3cm, V&A
  • Flatford
  • Less Known
  • 51.95904,1.01664
 

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