Label on the back of the painting: "This picture by Constable called “The Stour by Flatford Mill” was bequeathed by the will of Elizabeth Wyatt Mallet to Adrian Lewis Matthews, with liberty to me to have the enjoyment of it during my life or for such shorther period as I should think fit. | E Hugo Mallet, 28 May 1945"; other label: "The Tate Gallery | John Constable | Lock at Flatford | Constable | 18 February - 25 Apriul 1976| 96 A."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
Publications:
Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 96-97, no. 97, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)Leslie Parris, Constable : paintings, watercolours & drawings, , Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1976, pp. 74, 197, no. 96a, NJ18 C74 P37 + (YCBA)Carlos Peacock, John Constable : the man and his work, J. Baker, London, 1965, p. 102, pl. 22, NJ18 .C74 P43 + Oversize (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, v.1, p.167..., 12.10, pl. 938 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R484 1996 + (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 31, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)