Painting by John Constable
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]
The painting was one of five Constable displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1815 at Somerset House. It formed part of the Sheepshanks Gift of 1857 and is today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[3]
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Bibliography
- 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.
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- 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)
- The Valley Farm (1835)
- Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836)
- Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836)
- Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)
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