| Englefield House | |
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| Artist | John Constable |
| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Location | Englefield House, Berkshire |
Englefield House is an 1832 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [1] It depicts a view of Englefield House in Berkshire with deer running in the foreground. Constable was commissioned by Richard Benyon the owner of Englefield. The house had previously featured in a painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. [2]
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It was one of four oil paintings that Constable submitted to the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1833 at Somerset House along with The Cottage in a Cornfield . [3] [4] The Irish portraitist Martin Archer Shee, the President of the Royal Academy, was dismissive of the work which he felt was "only a picture of a house". Constable replied it "was a picture of a summer morning, including a house". [5] Constable also produced a watercolour painting of the house, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [6]
