Inscribed on a label on the back: "Hampstead 31st Oct. 1821. Very fine | afternoon of a beautiful day, it | began with rain. Wind fresh from | West"; inscribed on another label on the back: "This was painted on Hampstead Heath | in 1821 by my father, John Constable R.A., | and presented by me to A.W. Stiffe | A.D. 1863 - Charles Golding Constable"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.103
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hills | clouds | child | family | landscape
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Greater London | Hampstead | Harrow
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23)Constable's Clouds (Walker Art Gallery, 2000-04-28 - )Constable's Clouds (National Galleries of Scotland, - 2000-10-29)John Constable (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1991-06-13 - 1991-09-15)Constable's England (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983-04-13 - 1983-09-04)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Ronald Brymer Beckett, Correspondence: John Constable, , Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1962, p. 81 (v. 6), NJ18 C74 A2 1962 (YCBA)Christie's Sale Catalogue : Important English Pictures : 21 June 1974, Christie's, June 21, 1974, p. 42, lot 115, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-59, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 137, 143, pl. 142, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Elisabeth Fairman, Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 82, fig. 3, NJ18.H66842 F35 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 64, 170-171, no. IV.23, pl. 53, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 118-19, no. 319, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)George Dunlop Leslie, John Constable, R.A., Art Journal, Virtue, London, January 1903, p. 8, British PeriodicalsEdward. Morris, Constable's clouds : paintings and cloud studies by John Constable, , National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & Liverpool, UK, 2000, p.71, no. 42, NJ18 C74 C76 2000 + (YCBA)Leslie Parris, Constable : pictures from the exhibition, , Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 44-45, pls. 40 and 41, NJ18 C74 P373 1991 (YCBA)Leslie Parris, Constable, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 219, 506, No. 110, pl. 110, NJ18 C74 P372 1991 + (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Constable's England, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 120-21, No. 41, NJ18 C74 R496 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 85 (v.1), no. 21.64, pl. 267, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, p. 52, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, pp. 246-47, no. 29, pl. 108, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; by descent to Captain Charles Golding Constable (1821-1878), the artist’s son; given by him to Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe (1831-1912) in 1863 [1]; by bequest to his granddaughter Audrey Cecil Stephens (c. 1915-?) [a]; purchased by John Baskett at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, June 21, 1974 (lot 115 ‘A View of Hampstead Heath’), London, England, for Paul Mellon (1907-1999) [b]; by whom given to Yale Center for British Art, December 1976. Notes: --- [1] See label on work’s reverse, on center stretcher beam: “This was painted on Hampstead Heath in 1821 by my Father, John Constable R.A.., and presented by me to A.W. Stiffle, A.D. 1863 - Charles Golding Constable” Citations: --- [a] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 85 (v.1), no. 21.64. --- [b] John Baskett papers. Yale Center for British Art, Archives, John Baskett Ltd. stock book, 1967-1990, Box 1377, pp. 92-93 [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3080199]