The Valley Farm

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The Valley Farm
John Constable (1776-1837) - The Valley Farm - N00327 - National Gallery.jpg
Artist John Constable
Year1835
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions147.3 cm× 125.1 cm(58.0 in× 49.3 in)
Location Tate Britain, London

The Valley Farm is an 1835 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [1] Produced towards the end of his career, it features a view of the River Stour on the border of Essex and Suffolk in Eastern England. Now known as Constable Country, it depicts Willy Lott's Cottage at Flatford, a landscape he had painted a number of times.

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The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 in London, but critical reception was more muted than previous reviews of Constable's works. [2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been gifted to the nation by the art collector Robert Vernon in 1847. [3]

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References

  1. Hamlyn p.40
  2. Bailey p.275-76
  3. "'The Valley Farm', John Constable, 1835". Tate.

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