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Portrait of Mary, the artist's sister (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Portrait of Mary, the artist's sister (recto)

Date of Production

(22 April) 1812

Medium

graphite (recto and verso) on laid paper (now discoloured yellow)

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 9.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2541.3

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

by descent to grandson of the artist, Hugh Constable, London (1868-1949); purchased from him by Leggatt Bros. (London), October 1899; Sir Harry Baldwin, Isle of Wight (1863-1931); Sotheby's (London), 19 June 1933, lot 125, as a collection of 14 sketches in two frames; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Constable Portraits - The Painter and his Circle, Compton Verney & Warwickshire & England, 27/06/2009-06/09/2009

Constable Portraits - The Painter and his Circle, National Portrait Gallery & London & England, 05/03/2009-14/06/2009

Constable: paintings, watercolours and drawings, Tate Gallery, London, 18/02/1976-25/04/1976 ...More

Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937

Centenary exhibition of paintings and water-colours by John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837), Tate Gallery, London, 04/05/1937-31/08/1937 ...Less

Literature

Constable Portraits: the painter & his circle, National Portrait Gallery, 5 March - 4 June 2009 London: National Portrait Gallery, 2009
p. 76
no. 11 on p. 80

Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 12.12 on p. 168 (recto); no. 12.20 on p. 169 (verso)
pl. 940 (recto); pl. 945 (verso)

Constable: paintings, watercolours & drawings, Tate Gallery, 18 February - 25 April 1976 London: Tate Gallery 1976
no. 109
ill. ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 11
accession number given as 2541H and Mary listed as his daughter rather than sister ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper right corner, cut off at the edge: "[...]05".

Label: Frame (removed): " ...from the collection of / Hugh Constable, Esq grandson / of the painter / October, 1899 Leggatt Bros.".

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, artist's hand: "22d Apl. 1812.". Verso: upper right centre, graphite, hard to read: "right / centre [?]".

Collector's mark: none.

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