Painting by John Constable
The Church Porch, East Bergholt is an 1810 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable .[ 1] [ 2] It depicts a view of St Mary's Church in the village of East Bergholt in Suffolk . Located close to the border with Essex and in the area now known as Constable Country . Constable was born in East Bergholt where his father owned Flatford Mill .
It is believed to be the first painting Constable himself submitted for the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition , having appeared at earlier exhibitions.[ 3] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico , having been donated to the nation by the artist's daughter Isabel Constable in 1888.[ 3]
See also
References
Bibliography
Bishop, Peter. An Archetypal Constable: National Identity and the Geography of Nostalgia . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
Cove, Sarah. Constable: The Great Landscapes . Tate, 2006.
Paintings
List of paintings
Old Hall, East Bergholt (1801)
Dedham Vale (1802)
The Bridges Family (1804)
Bow Fell, Cumberland (1807)
The Church Porch, East Bergholt (1810)
Flatford Mill from the Lock (1812)
Boys Fishing (1813)
The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814 (1814)
The Mill Stream (1814)
Brightwell Church and Village (1815)
Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill (1815)
Stour Valley and Dedham Church (1815)
Golding Constable's Flower Garden (1815)
Golding Constable's Vegetable Garden (1815)
Weymouth Bay (1816)
The Quarters behind Alresford Hall (1816)
The Wheat Field (1816)
Wivenhoe Park (1816)
Fen Lane, East Bergholt (1817)
Flatford Mill (1817)
Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill (1817)
Willy Lott's House from the Stour (1818)
The White Horse (1819)
Dedham Lock and Mill (1820)
Harwich Lighthouse (1820)
Hampstead Heath (1820)
Stratford Mill (1820)
Waterloo Bridge (1820)
Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820)
Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box (1820)
Harnham Gate (1821)
Trees at Hampstead (1821)
The Hay Wain (1821)
Malvern Hall (1821)
The Grove, Hampstead (1822)
Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire (1822)
Road to the Spaniards (1822)
View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead (1822)
View on the Stour near Dedham (1822)
Yarmouth Jetty (1822)
Gillingham Bridge (1823)
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823)
The Lock (1824)
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (1825)
The Leaping Horse (1825)
A Boat Passing a Lock (1826)
The Cornfield (1826)
Parham Mill (1826)
Chain Pier, Brighton (1827)
Vale of Health, Hampstead (1827)
The Vale of Dedham (1828)
Hadleigh Castle (1829)
The Glebe Farm (1830)
Helmingham Dell (1830)
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831)
Englefield House (1832)
The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (1832)
Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead (1832)
The Cottage in a Cornfield (1833)
Old Sarum (1834)
The Valley Farm (1835)
Stonehenge (1835)
Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836)
Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836)
Stoke-by-Nayland (1836)
Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)
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