Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill
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Artist | John Constable |
Year | 1815 |
Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
Dimensions | 50.8 cm × 61.6 cm (20.0 in × 24.3 in) |
Location | Victoria and Albert Museum , London |
Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill is an 1815 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.[1] It depicts a scene on the River Stour near to Flatford Mill on the Essex-Suffolk border. Constable's father owned Flatford Mill and the area around it is now known as Constable Country. Portraying the process of boat building, it has been described as a forerunner of his best-known Six-Foot paintings depicting scenes from the area.[2]
It is today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
See also
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[edit]- Allhusen, Edward. John Constable. Medici Society, 2009
- Bailey, Anthony. John Constable: A Kingdom of his Own. Random House, 2012.
- Charles, Victoria. Constable. Parkstone International, 2015.
- Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2022.
- Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
- Thornes, John E. John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science. A&C Black, 1999.
- Waites, Ian. Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850. Boydell Press, 2012.