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Brightwell Church and Village
Artist: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
Location: Tate
Date: 1815
Materials: oil on wood
Dimensions: 15 x 22 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £7,500 (Total: £109,227)
Vendor: Covent Garden Gallery
Review number: 2816 (1980)
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.
Description:
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...'.
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