Brightwell Church and Village

John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Tate Collection

1815

Letter from Constable to Maria Bicknell, 'On Monday I am going for a day or two from home to meet a Gentleman at a village Brightwell near Woodbridge to take a view for him - of th Church as it appears above a wood...'.

• Medium: oil on wood
• Dimensions: 15 x 22 cm
• Grant Paid: £7500 ( Total: £109227)
• ArtFunded in: 1980
• Vendor: Covent Garden Gallery

Provenance

Painted for the Rev. Frederick Henry Turnor Barnwell of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; Sir Robert Hartland; possibly family of Richard Dyke Alexander, Ipswich; the Lewis-May family, Colchester, by 1915; by descent until sold by Mrs C Lewis-May, 1978.

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