
Not on display
- Artist
- Formerly attributed to John Constable 1776–1837
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 251 × 352 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1879
- Reference
- N01066
Catalogue entry
N01066 ‘Barnes Common’
Oil on canvas, 9 7/8×13 1/8 (25.1×35.2).
Inscribed on the back of the relining canvas: ‘on the old Stretcher was Barnes Common J [...] Constable’ and ‘Garles Sale at Christie May 1862’. A label on the stretcher reads ‘Mr Garles sale Christies May 1862 on the original Stretcher was written “Barnes Common” J. Constable. no date.’, while on the stretcher itself is the further inscription ‘an early work.’
Prov ...; Thomas Garle, sold Christie's 24 May 1862(66), bt. James Hughes Anderdon, £9, and sold by him, Christie's 30 May 1879(109; the sale stencil is on the stretcher), bt. Barton, £37. 16s., for the National Gallery; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1919. Accession N01066.
Exh: Tate Gallery 1976(358, as ‘Formerly Ascribed to Constable’).
Lit: Holmes 1902, pp.69, 240; Shirley 1937, pp.lx–lxi, 34; Chamot 1956, p.258
Although not accepted by the Constable family (see under No.49), ‘Barnes Common’ was regarded by Holmes and Shirley as an authentic work dating from about 1805. After Shirley it more or less dropped out of the literature but was not officially demoted until sometime in the 1950s, probably following a letter to the Tate Gallery in 1955 from R.B.Beckett, who said he thought the picture ‘very doubtful’.
As with No.49, the actual author of the work remains to be identified. The title ‘Barnes Common’ was used in Anderdon's sale; in the earlier Garle sale the work was called only ‘A Landscape, with a windmill and a stage coach’.
Published in:
Leslie Parris, The Tate Gallery Constable Collection, London 1981
Explore
- architecture(41,314)
-
- industrial(2,086)
-
- windmill(316)
- townscapes / man-made features(21,691)
-
- building - non-specific(3,172)
- animals: mammals(4,857)
-
- horse(1,586)
- bush(202)
- UK countries and regions(24,402)
-
- England(19,249)
- transport: land(2,950)
-
- carriage(292)
You might like
-
John Constable Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’
c.1819–20 -
John Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Cart and Carters
c.1825 -
John Constable The Grove, Hampstead
c.1821–2 -
John Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Boy Sitting on a Bank
c.1825 -
John Constable Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
1836 -
John Constable Flatford Mill (‘Scene on a Navigable River’)
1816–7 -
John Constable The Glebe Farm
c.1830 -
John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
exhibited 1831 -
Doubtfully attributed to John Constable ‘Summer, Afternoon - After a Shower’
date not known -
John Constable Hampstead Heath, with Harrow in the Distance
c.1820–2 -
John Constable Yarmouth Jetty
after 1823 -
John Constable A Bank on Hampstead Heath
c.1820–2 -
John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
?1829 -
Formerly attributed to John Constable The Leaping Horse
date not known -
John Constable Dedham Lock and Mill
?1817