Flatford Mill from a lock on the Stour
The picture depicts Flatford Mill which belonged to John Constable’s father, Golding Constable.
- 78
- 1811
- 24.8cm x 298cm
- V&A
- Oil on Canvas
- Oil on Canvas, 1811, 24.8cm x 298cm, V&A
- Flatford
- Less Known
- 51.95895,1.02080
Details
This painting and another of the same year ‘Flatford Mill from the Lock’ are believed to be studies in preparation for a piece exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1812 ‘Flatford Mill from the Lock’ (private Collection), where Constable deleted the figure on the left, a man opening the lock gates.
On 12th November 1811, Constable told Maria what he had painted that summer.
‘I have tried Flatford Mill again – from the lock – and some smaller things – one of them (a view to Mrs Roberts Lawn – by the Summers evening’ has been quite a pet to me.
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.
- 78
- 1811
- 24.8cm x 298cm
- V&A
- Oil on Canvas
- Oil on Canvas, 1811, 24.8cm x 298cm, V&A
- Flatford
- Less Known
- 51.95895,1.02080