Shop
Museum
Overview
Exhibitions
Collections
Education
Publications
Clark Connects
Art on the Grounds
Study Center
Image Not Available
Zoom
Download
JPEG images are suitable for most presentation uses. TIFF images are suitable for publication purposes. When using images, please reproduce caption and credit information. For details or further information, click here.
If the file does not immediately download, it should open in a new tab. Once opened, right–click the image to save.
Audio
John Constable
English, 1776–1837
Brighton Beach, Looking East
1824
Image Caption
John Constable, Brighton Beach, Looking East, 1824, brush and gray wash over graphite on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.39
Medium
brush and gray wash over graphite on beige wove paper
Dimensions
6 15/16 x 10 1/4 in. (17.7 x 26.1 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.39
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Heseltine, J.P. Original Drawings by British Painters in the Collection of J.P. H[eseltine]. 1902. Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vol. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1984. Parris, Leslie and Ian Fleming-Williams. "Review of The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable by Graha Reynolds" The Burlington Magazine 127, no. 984 (March 1985): 16470. Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable and his Drawings. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. 1990. Parris, Leslie and Ian Fleming-Williams. John Constable. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 1991. Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. 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.
Provenance
The artist; Captain Charles Golding Constable, his son, by descent (d. 1879); Mrs. Anna Maria Constable, by descent (1879–1887), sold by court order, Christie’s, London, 11 July 1887, no. 28 or 38, sold to Noseda, as agent for Heseltine; J. P. Heseltine, London (1887–1920, possible sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 Mar. 1920, no. 120, sold to Agnew’s); [Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London]; A. Murray-Smith (in 1933); sale, Christie’s, 28 June 1963, no. 11, sold to Johnson; [Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd., in 1963, sold to Manton, Aug. 1963]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1963–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.