© Tate
Fen Lane, East Bergholt
Artist: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
Location: Tate
Date: circa 1817
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 69.2 x 92.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £300,000 (Total: £1,928,071; tax remission)
Vendor: Private collector
Review number: 5140 (2002)
Provenance:
Sir Donald Currie by 1894; 1909 private collector; then by descent; 1990 Phillips II; private collection.
Description:
A landscape scene painted during the artist's long visit to Suffolk. The mud lane winds through the countryside bordered by hedges, fields and trees. Reapers can be seen working in the field on the left. The painting is unfinished and seems to have been started in the open air.
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