Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.17
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
building | trees | figure | gate | dwelling | wall | mansion | country house | brushstrokes | sky
Associated Places:
Suffolk | East Bergholt | England | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Catalogue of the Constable collection, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK, 1973, p. 70, NJ18 C74 R495 1973 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 96, no. 94, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 72 (v.1),, no. 90, pl. 37 (v.2), ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 27 [v.1], no. 85, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, p.162 [v.1], 11.40, pl. 924 [v.2], NJ18 C74 R484 1996 + (YCBA)Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, p. 194, note 9, no. 13, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 14 (v.1), no. 47, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Created by John Constable (1776-1831), the artist; by descent to his son, Captain Charles Golding Constable (1821-1878) [a]; …; Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris [1];...; acquired by Alexander Young (1828-1907), London, England [b]; acquired by Dr. Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour (1856-1927), Edinburgh, Scotland [c]; acquired by Harry Leonard Fison (1868-1959) and Alice Marjorie Fison (née Pye-Smith, 1881-1955), Ipswich, England [2] [d]; purchased at auction by Arthur Tooth & Sons at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, November 6, 1959 (lot 12, 'A view of Wooling Hall') in "Fine English pictures" [3] [e]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1960 [f]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1999. Notes: --- [1] A wax seal on the back of the panel indicates the work was with Sedelmeyer, Paris. [2] A stamp on the back of the panel from Leggatt Brothers gives the following provenance: Captain Constable; Alexander Young; Dr Barbour, Edinburgh; H&M Fison Collection. There is another label on the back, which reads “H & M Fison”. H refers to Henry Fison, while M presumably refers to his wife’s middle name, Marjorie. The work was exhibited by the Leggatt Brothers, see, Summer Exhibition of English Pictures, including the collection of H.L. Fison, 1956 https://search.worldcat.org/title/77798464 [3] The work was previously known as "Wooling Hall" per Graham Reynolds, The early paintings of John Constable (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 1:162, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3892926 Citations: --- [a] Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, p.162 [v.1], 11.40 [b] Ibid [c] Ibid [d] Ibid [e] Christie, Manson & Woods. November 6, 1959. Fine English pictures; the Collection of the Late H.L. Fison, Esq. https://worldcat.org/en/title/171337887 [f] 1968 Constable Manuscript catalogue: 1792-1813, Charles Rhyne Archive, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art