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John Constable
English, 1776–1837
Willy Lott's House (recto); Landscape Sketches with Trees and Church Tower (verso)
c. 1812–13 (recto); c. 1811–13
Image Caption
John Constable, Willy Lott's House (recto); Landscape Sketches with Trees and Church Tower (verso), c. 1812–13 (recto); c. 1811–13, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.24
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
13 3/4 x 17 1/8 in. (34.9 x 43.5 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.24
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. Reynolds, Graham. The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vol. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1996. Pionk, Richard C. and Margaret Somers. Constable. Salmagundi Club, October 14 - November 2, 2000. New York, Salmagundi Club. 2000. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 Sept. 1974, no. 35, as A Sketch of the Valley Farm, sold to a private collection, Seattle; private collection, Seattle (from 1974); [Deborah Gage (Works of Art) Ltd., London, sold to Manton 2 Feb. 1993]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1993–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–7, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.