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Seascape (recto)
Maker
Lionel Constable (artist)
1828-1887
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1776-1837
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Width: 14 cm
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This seascape appeared in the sale of Isabel Constable’s property as a genuine work by her father, British artist John Constable. Technical analysis of the paper has now revealed that it dates from the 1840s, after Constable’s death. It seems most likely to have been made by one of Constable’s sons. Later documents reveal the pressure that Constable’s heirs were put under by dealers to certify that works in their possession were by their illustrious forebear John, as was probably the case of the present work.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Von Floris tot Rubens. Meestertekeningen uit een Belgische privéverzameling / De Floris à Rubens. Dessins de maÎtres d'une collection particulière Belge, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2016
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979 ...More
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965
Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64
L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 29/07/1961-17/09/1961
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960
Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59
A Loan exhibition of English and French paintings and drawings, Wigan Grammar School, 06/04/1938-30/04/1938
Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937 ...Less
Literature
p. 412 under II.8
reattributed to either Lionel or Alfred (the verso)
English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 46
'probably to be dated in the 1830s'.
Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 43
'Possibly to be dated in the 1830s'. ...More
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 30
L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 1961
cat. no. 21
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 4
Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 58
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 11 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, blue crayon, underlined and unclear: "38[?]" and in graphite, also underlined "29".
Collector's mark: Mount (removed): Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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