Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Title:
Mary Freer
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in yellow paint, upper right: "Miss Mary Freer"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.132
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | shawl | hat | shawls | cloak | dress | white (color) | red | emotion | melancholy | girl | woman | sitting
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

Constable Portraits - The Painter and His Circle (National Portrait Gallery, 2009-03-05 - 2009-06-14)

Constable Portraits - The Painter and His Circle (Compton Verney, 2009-06-27 - 2009-09-06)

John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 56-57, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 36-37, 56, pl. 27, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Martin Gayford, Constable portraits, the painter and his circle , National Portrait Gallery, London, 2009, pp. 104-5, cat. 24, NJ18 C74 G38 2009 (YCBA)

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 93-94, no. 68, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)

John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 16-17, no. 5, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)

Merits and mercenaries, a novel in two volumes , Hye St. Press, s.l., 2011, cover, Not Available at Yale

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 151 (v.1), no. 288, pl. 38 (v.2), ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837) : an exhibition : paintings, drawings, watercolors, mezzotints, , Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York, 1988, pp. 14,25, fn 19, NJ18 C74 R497 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, pp. 132-33 (v.1), no. 9.23, pl 756 [v.2], NJ18 C74 R484 1996 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:643